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title: Two hedgehogs rode in front as outriders, and on the box sat a fat m… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hedgehogs rode in front as outriders, and on the box sat a fat mouse as coachman, and behind stood two little frogs as footmen. Who acts: Two hedgehogs. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 27

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Two hedgehogs rode in front as outriders, and on the box sat a fat mouse as coachman, and behind stood two little frogs as footmen.

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**Who acts:** Two hedgehogs · **What happens:** ride, sit, stand · **To what, where:** front, fat mouse, box, two little frogs

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two hedgehogs), 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:pg7277:30:27
# text = Two hedgehogs rode in front as outriders, and on the box sat a fat mouse as coachman, and behind stood two little frogs as footmen.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	outriders	outrider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	footmen	footman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Two hedgehogs |  |  | front |  | as outriders | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Two hedgehogs *not said here* | a fat mouse |  | the box |  | as coachman | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on box=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Two hedgehogs *not said here* | two little frogs |  |  |  | as footmen; behind *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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