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title: Standing on her hind legs, and bowing low before her, she said gently: — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing on her hind legs, and bowing low before her, she said gently: Who acts: frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 67

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Standing on her hind legs, and bowing low before her, she said gently:

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**Who acts:** frog · **What happens:** stand, bow, say · **To what, where:** hind legs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg3027:27:67
# text = Standing on her hind legs, and bowing low before her, she said gently:
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | frog *not said here* |  |  | frog's hind legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 2 | **bow** | gerund | frog *not said here* |  |  |  | before frog | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | frog |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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