--- title: The queen rose hastily from the seat, and striking the bird sharply… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The queen rose hastily from the seat, and striking the bird sharply on the claws with the fan which hung from her side, she forced him to drop the frog, which fell to the round more dead than alive. Who acts: queen, fan, bird, frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/64/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/) / 64 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 64 The queen rose hastily from the seat, and striking the bird sharply on the claws with the fan which hung from her side, she forced him to drop the frog, which fell to the round more dead than alive. **Who acts:** queen, fan, bird, frog · **What happens:** rise, strike, hang, force, drop, fall · **To what, where:** seat, bird, side, frog 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, fan, bird, frog), 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:pg3027:27:64 # text = The queen rose hastily from the seat, and striking the bird sharply on the claws with the fan which hung from her side, she forced him to drop the frog, which fell to the round more dead than alive. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 striking strike VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the queen | | | the seat | | hastily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **strike** | gerund | the queen *not said here* | the bird | | | | on the claws with the fan; sharply *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bird=Instrument on claw=Patient | | 3 | **hang** | past | the fan | | | queen's side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **force** | past | queen | bird | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **drop** | to-infinitive | bird *not said here* | the frog | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | the frog | | | | | to the round | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to round=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/65/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/)