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title: The frog's heart beat high when her litter drew up before the steps… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The frog's heart beat high when her litter drew up before the steps of the palace, and leaning forward she beckoned to her side one of the guards who were standing in his doorway. Who acts: heart, litter, guards. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its depend
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 68

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The frog's heart beat high when her litter drew up before the steps of the palace, and leaning forward she beckoned to her side one of the guards who were standing in his doorway.

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**Who acts:** heart, litter, guards · **What happens:** beat, draw up, lean, beckon, stand, step · **To what, where:** one, side, doorway, palace

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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 (heart, litter, guards), 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:pg3027:28:68
# text = The frog's heart beat high when her litter drew up before the steps of the palace, and leaning forward she beckoned to her side one of the guards who were standing in his doorway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
21	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the frog's heart |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw up** | past | heart's litter |  |  |  | before the steps of the palace |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beckon** | past | litter | one of the guards | heart's side |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to side=Recipient |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | the guards |  |  | door's doorway |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 6 | **step** |  |  | the palace |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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