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title: He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable. Who ac
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 90

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He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** take, wander off, pick, play, make, be · **To what, where:** Velveteen Rabbit, flowers, brigands, little nest, Rabbit, hearted little boy

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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 (Boy), 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:pg11757:1:90
# text = He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	brigands	brigand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bracken	bracken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
46	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
50	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
58	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	cop	_	_
61	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Boy |  | the Velveteen Rabbit |  |  | with Rabbit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination |
| 2 | **wander off** | past | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  | brigands |  | among the trees | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | Boy | a little nest | the Rabbit |  |  | among the bracken; always, somewhere *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset rabbit=Beneficiary nest=Product |
| 6 | **is** | would | Boy |  |  |  |  | cosy *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Boy | a hearted little boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **like** | past | Boy | Bunny |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bunny=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |

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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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