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title: The poor queen returned to her house looking so sad that the frog, w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor queen returned to her house looking so sad that the frog, who was waiting for her, noticed it directly. Who acts: poor queen, frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 1

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The poor queen returned to her house looking so sad that the frog, who was waiting for her, noticed it directly.

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**Who acts:** poor queen, frog · **What happens:** return, look, wait, notice · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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:pg3027:28:1
# text = The poor queen returned to her house looking so sad that the frog, who was waiting for her, noticed it directly.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
21	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the poor queen |  |  |  |  | to queen's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the poor queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | past · progressive | the frog |  |  |  |  | for queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | past | the frog | house |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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