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title: And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her strai… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her straight into the water, he walked off in a rage to his younger sister the mouse. Who acts: helter, blow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 105

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And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her straight into the water, he walked off in a rage to his younger sister the mouse.

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**Who acts:** helter, blow · **What happens:** give, knock, walk off · **To what, where:** blow, poor frog, water, frog, rage

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helter, blow), 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:pg3282:16:105
# text = And giving the poor frog a blow on her head, which knocked her straight into the water, he walked off in a rage to his younger sister the mouse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **give** | gerund | helter *not said here* | a blow | the poor frog |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient blow=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | past | a blow | the water | frog |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination water=Theme |
| 3 | **walk off** | past | helter |  |  | a rage |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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