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title: The poor queen crouched under a rock for the rest of the night, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor queen crouched under a rock for the rest of the night, and the next morning, when she woke from her troubled dreams, she was cheered at seeing the frog watching by her. Who acts: queen, frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree an
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 101

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The poor queen crouched under a rock for the rest of the night, and the next morning, when she woke from her troubled dreams, she was cheered at seeing the frog watching by her.

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**Who acts:** queen, frog · **What happens:** crouch, wake, cheer, see, watch, dream · **To what, where:** poor queen, rock, troubled dreams, queen, frog

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, frog), 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:pg3027:27:101
# text = The poor queen crouched under a rock for the rest of the night, and the next morning, when she woke from her troubled dreams, she was cheered at seeing the frog watching by her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
31	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | participle |  | the poor queen *not said here* |  | a rock |  | for the rest of the night | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rock=Location |
| 2 | **wake** | past | queen |  |  | queen's troubled dreams |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cheer** | past · passive |  | queen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | gerund |  | the frog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus |
| 5 | **watch** | gerund | the frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by queen | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=Location |
| 6 | **dream** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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