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title: 'Cover yourselves with honey, and hop round by the beehives,' comman… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Cover yourselves with honey, and hop round by the beehives,' commanded the frog, putting on the cap which her friend was holding in her mouth. Who acts: you, friend. 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 86

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'Cover yourselves with honey, and hop round by the beehives,' commanded the frog, putting on the cap which her friend was holding in her mouth.

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**Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** cover, hop, command, put, hold · **To what, where:** yourselves, frog, cap, mouth · **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 (you, friend), 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:pg3027:27:86
# text = 'Cover yourselves with honey, and hop round by the beehives,' commanded the frog, putting on the cap which her friend was holding in her mouth.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beehives	beehive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | with honey | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourselves=Destination with honey=Theme |
| 2 | **hop** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the beehives; round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by beehive=Trajectory |
| 3 | **command** | past |  | the frog |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | gerund |  |  |  | the cap |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination |
| 5 | **hold** | past · progressive | frog's friend | the cap |  | frog's mouth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in mouth=Location |

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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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