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title: And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gon… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece. Who acts: tunnels, Nana, night light. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 67

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And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece.

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**Who acts:** tunnels, Nana, night light · **What happens:** have, go away, leave, burn · **To what, where:** splendid games, whispers, supper, night light, mantelpiece

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This is a sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tunnels, Nana, night light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg11757:50`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11757:1:67
# text = And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mantelpiece	mantelpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | tunnels *= tunnel* | splendid games |  | whispers |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 2 | **go away** | past · perfect | Nana |  |  | Nana's supper |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to supper=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | Nana *not said here* | the night light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | the night light *not said here* |  |  | the mantelpiece |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mantelpiece=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Project Gutenberg book 11757 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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