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title: For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece. Who acts: Rabbit, wild rabbits, legs. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tr
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 219

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For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, wild rabbits, legs · **What happens:** see, dance, remember, not want, make · **To what, where:** wild rabbits, legs, Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rabbit, wild rabbits, legs), 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:pg11757:1:219
# text = For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	ccomp	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Rabbit | all wild rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | all wild rabbits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around Rabbit | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location |
| 3 | **remember** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | about Rabbit's hind legs; suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Rabbit | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | legs *= leg* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | past · passive |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary piece=Product |

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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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