--- title: He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into th… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron. Who acts: Rabbit, burrows, Nana. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Velveteen Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/) / 73 # The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 73 He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron. **Who acts:** Rabbit, burrows, Nana · **What happens:** be, dive, make, grumble, rub off · **To what, where:** burrows, Boy, flower bed, Rabbit 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, burrows, Nana), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11757:1:73 # text = He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 quite quite ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 earthy earthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 from from SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 diving dive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Nana Nana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grumbled grumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 apron apron NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Rabbit | | | | | with the dew; through, wet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dive** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | | | the burrows | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Location | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the burrows *not said here* | the Boy | | the flower bed | | for Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | | 5 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | Nana | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rub off** | past | Nana | | Rabbit | | | with a corner of Nana's apron | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with corner=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)