The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 219

For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece.

Who acts: Rabbit, wild rabbits, legs · What happens: see, dance, remember, not want, make · To what, where: wild rabbits, legs, Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wild rabbits, legs), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remembered	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 rabbits	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbits	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rabbits	compound
8	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	obj
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 rabbits	acl
10	around	around	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dancing	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remembered	nsubj
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 remembered	advmod
14	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 legs	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remembered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 want	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 remembered	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 see	ccomp
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 piece	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 piece	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 piece	nummod
35	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Rabbit	all wild rabbits		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus
2	dance	gerund	all wild rabbits not said here		around Rabbit	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location
3	remember	past	Rabbit		about Rabbit's hind legs; suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	not want	past · do-support	Rabbit	legs = leg		tree rules
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	legs = leg not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	past · passive		Rabbit		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary piece=Product

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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