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title: He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovel… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border. Who acts: Rabbit, lovely fairy huts, raspberry. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 71

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He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, lovely fairy huts, raspberry · **What happens:** have, build, cane · **To what, where:** rides, wheelbarrow, flower border

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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 (Rabbit, lovely fairy huts, raspberry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11757:1:71
# text = He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rides	ride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	canes	cane	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Rabbit | rides |  | the wheelbarrow |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past | lovely fairy huts |  |  |  |  | for Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **cane** | present | the raspberry |  |  | the flower border |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind border=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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