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title: Just as she had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, l… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as she had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, looking so strange with bees sticking to every part of them that, sad as she felt, the poor queen could not help laughing. Who acts: Fairy, bees, poor queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, wit
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 91

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Just as she had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, looking so strange with bees sticking to every part of them that, sad as she felt, the poor queen could not help laughing.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, bees, poor queen · **What happens:** finish, speak, return, look, stick, feel · **To what, where:** thousand frogs · **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 (Fairy, bees, poor queen), 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:pg3027:27:91
# text = Just as she had finished speaking the six thousand frogs returned, looking so strange with bees sticking to every part of them that, sad as she felt, the poor queen could not help laughing.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
37	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | the thousand frogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | past | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with bees; strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stick** | gerund | bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to every part of bees | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to part=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **feel** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **help** | could | the poor queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **laugh** *not said to happen* | gerund | the poor queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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