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title: The frog was always careful to maintain her dignity, and nothing wou… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 62

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The frog was always careful to maintain her dignity, and nothing would have persuaded her to show her face in public places, or even along the high road, where there was a chance of meeting anyone.

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**Who acts:** frog, chance · **What happens:** be, maintain, persuade, show, meet · **To what, where:** dignity, nothing, face, anyone

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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 (frog, chance), 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:pg3027:28:62
# text = The frog was always careful to maintain her dignity, and nothing would have persuaded her to show her face in public places, or even along the high road, where there was a chance of meeting anyone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the frog |  |  |  |  | always, careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | the frog *not said here* | frog's dignity |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dignity=Theme |
| 3 | **persuade** | would · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | frog's face |  |  |  | in public places | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in place=Topic |
| 5 | **meet** | gerund | a chance *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-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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