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title: In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit th… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spins his head all the way round. Who acts: spotted fawn, Thumper, Flower, Friend. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 0

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In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spins his head all the way round.

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**Who acts:** spotted fawn, Thumper, Flower, Friend · **What happens:** spot, wobble, thump, blush, spin · **To what, where:** Bambi, foot, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spotted fawn, Thumper, Flower, Friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:0
# text = In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spins his head all the way round.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Bambi	Bambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wobbles	wobble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
12	Thumper	Thumper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	thumps	thump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
19	Flower	flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	blushes	blush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	Friend	friend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **wobble** | present | a spotted fawn |  |  | Bambi |  | on thin legs | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bambi=Location |
| 3 | **thump** | present | Thumper | Thumper's foot |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **blush** | present | Flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **spin** | present | Friend | Thumper's head |  |  |  | all way *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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