--- title: The way they played their game was to let Muffette creep close to th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The way they played their game was to let Muffette creep close to the frog, and then for the frog to bound high into the air and alight on the child's head, or back, or legs, when she always sent up a shout of pleasure. Who acts: eyes, game, frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/30/) [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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/) / 30 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 30 The way they played their game was to let Muffette creep close to the frog, and then for the frog to bound high into the air and alight on the child's head, or back, or legs, when she always sent up a shout of pleasure. **Who acts:** eyes, game, frog · **What happens:** play, be, creep, bound, send up, shout · **To what, where:** way, air, shout, pleasure 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 (eyes, game, 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:pg3027:28:30 # text = The way they played their game was to let Muffette creep close to the frog, and then for the frog to bound high into the air and alight on the child's head, or back, or legs, when she always sent up a shout of pleasure. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 Muffette Muffette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 bound bound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 alight alight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 when when SCONJ WRB _ 45 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 45 advmod _ _ 45 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | eyes *= eye* | the way | | | | for the frog; legs *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | eyes's game | | | | | let *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **creep** | infinitive | eyes's game *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bound** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | the air | | on the child's head; high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | | 5 | **send up** | past | frog | a shout of pleasure | | | | always *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme | | 6 | **shout** | | | pleasure | | | | | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/)