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title: Then a pink and grey parrot hopped up to the giant, who by this time… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a pink and grey parrot hopped up to the giant, who by this time was stretching himself and giving yawns which shook the castle. Who acts: pink parrot, yawns. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 84

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Then a pink and grey parrot hopped up to the giant, who by this time was stretching himself and giving yawns which shook the castle.

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**Who acts:** pink parrot, yawns · **What happens:** hop up, stretch, give, shake · **To what, where:** pink parrot, Parrot, yawns, castle

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pink parrot, yawns), 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:pg3027:25:84
# text = Then a pink and grey parrot hopped up to the giant, who by this time was stretching himself and giving yawns which shook the castle.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	hopped	hop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	yawns	yawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop up** | participle |  | a pink parrot *not said here* |  |  |  | to the giant | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to giant=Destination |
| 2 | **stretch** | past · progressive | a pink parrot | Parrot |  |  | time |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | a pink parrot *not said here* | yawns |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme |
| 4 | **shake** | past | yawns | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent castle=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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