The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 213

In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her.

Who acts: fronds, Fairy, trunks · What happens: dance, see, stop, stand, stare, shadow · To what, where: wild rabbits, open glade, ring, velvet grass

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 (fronds, Fairy, trunks), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 glade	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glade	det
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glade	amod
4	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	obl
5	between	between	ADP	_	9 trunks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trunks	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trunks	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tree	punct
9	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glade	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rabbits	det
11	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rabbits	compound
12	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trunks	nmod
13	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rabbits	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 shadows	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shadows	nmod:poss
16	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
19	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grass	compound
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shadows	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 saw	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fairy	det
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	nsubj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 stopped	advmod
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 saw	parataxis
31	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stopped	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stopped	conj
34	round	round	ADV	_	33 stood	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 ring	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ring	det
37	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 stare	mark
39	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stood	advcl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stare	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	participle		the wild rabbits not said here		with trunks's shadows on the velvet grass	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	fronds = frond		the open glade between the tree trunks the wild rabbits		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	past	the Fairy				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	dance	gerund	the Fairy not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	past	the Fairy not said here		a ring	round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
6	stare	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here			at fairy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
7	shadow		trunks = trunk		the velvet grass		nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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.

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