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title: Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last! Who acts: Skin Horse. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 8

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Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last!

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**Who acts:** Skin Horse · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Christmas Morning, Story, Last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Skin Horse), 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:pg11757:1:8
# text = Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last!
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Morning	Morning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Horse	Horse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
13	Anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Times	Times	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	At	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Last	Last	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Skin Horse | Christmas Morning | Horse's Story and Days Anxious Times | Last |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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