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title: All stared in surprise as the procession advanced, and still more wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All stared in surprise as the procession advanced, and still more when the frog gave one bound from the litter on to the floor, and with another landed on the arm of the chair of state. Who acts: frog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree a
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 72

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All stared in surprise as the procession advanced, and still more when the frog gave one bound from the litter on to the floor, and with another landed on the arm of the chair of state.

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**Who acts:** frog · **What happens:** stare, give on, land · **To what, where:** one bound, floor, litter, another, arm

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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), 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:pg3027:28:72
# text = All stared in surprise as the procession advanced, and still more when the frog gave one bound from the litter on to the floor, and with another landed on the arm of the chair of state.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the procession; in surprise; all *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme |
| 2 | **give on** | past | the frog | one bound | the floor | the litter |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bound=Theme to floor=Recipient |
| 3 | **land** | participle · passive |  | another |  | the arm of the chair of state |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on arm=Destination |

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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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