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title: Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall an… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 187

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Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** see, grow, play · **To what, where:** thicket, shadow

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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:pg11757:1:187
# text = Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	canes	cane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	bygone	bygone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | Boy | the thicket of raspberry canes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thicket=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past · perfect | Boy | shadow *not said here* |  |  | morning | with the Boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme with boy=Co-Agent |

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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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