--- title: In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced wi… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her. Who acts: fronds, Fairy, trunks. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/213/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Velveteen Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/) / 213 # The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 213 In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her. **Who acts:** fronds, Fairy, trunks · **What happens:** dance, see, stop, stand, stare, shadow · **To what, where:** wild rabbits, open glade, ring, velvet grass 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 (fronds, Fairy, trunks), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11757:1:213 # text = In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 glade glade NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 danced dance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 31 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 round round ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | participle | | the wild rabbits *not said here* | | | | with trunks's shadows on the velvet grass | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | fronds *= frond* | | | the open glade between the tree trunks the wild rabbits | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stop** | past | the Fairy | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **dance** | gerund | the Fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | the Fairy *not said here* | | | a ring | | round *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location | | 6 | **stare** | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* | | | | | at fairy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 7 | **shadow** | | trunks *= trunk* | | | the velvet grass | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/212/) - next →: [sentence 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/214/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)