The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 126
The strange rabbit stopped dancing, and came quite close.
Who acts: strange rabbit · What happens: stop, dance, come
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 (strange rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11757:100): 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rabbit | amod |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stopped | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 close | advmod |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the strange rabbit | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | the strange rabbit not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the strange rabbit not said here | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: 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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