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title: First walked her bodyguard of grasshoppers, followed by her maids of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First walked her bodyguard of grasshoppers, followed by her maids of honour, who were those tiny green frogs you see in the fields, each one mounted on a snail, and seated on a velvet saddle. Who acts: honour, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its depe
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 55

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First walked her bodyguard of grasshoppers, followed by her maids of honour, who were those tiny green frogs you see in the fields, each one mounted on a snail, and seated on a velvet saddle.

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**Who acts:** honour, you · **What happens:** walk, follow, be, see, mount, seat · **To what, where:** bodyguard, grasshoppers, tiny green frogs, fields, one, velvet saddle

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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 (honour, you), 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:pg3027:28:55
# text = First walked her bodyguard of grasshoppers, followed by her maids of honour, who were those tiny green frogs you see in the fields, each one mounted on a snail, and seated on a velvet saddle.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
29	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past |  | frog's bodyguard of grasshoppers |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bodyguard=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | grasshoppers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | honour | that tiny green frogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | you | that tiny green frogs *not said here* |  | the fields |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mount** | participle |  | each one *not said here* |  |  |  | on a snail | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snail=Destination |
| 6 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  | a velvet saddle |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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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