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title: For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mys… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like any that grew in the garden. Who acts: tear, flower, all. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 194

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For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like any that grew in the garden.

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**Who acts:** tear, flower, all · **What happens:** fall, grow out, grow · **To what, where:** ground, garden

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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 (tear, flower, all), 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:pg11757:1:194
# text = For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like any that grew in the garden.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | the tear |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow out** | past | a flower | the ground and a mysterious flower |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | all |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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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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