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title: All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone li… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver. Who acts: forest, fronds. 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 212

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All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver.

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**Who acts:** forest, fronds · **What happens:** be, shine, frost

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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 (forest, fronds), 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:pg11757:1:212
# text = All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fronds	frond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bracken	bracken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	frosted	frost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all forest |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | participle | the fronds of the bracken |  |  |  |  | like frosted silver | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frost** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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