The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 72

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 stared	advmod
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 surprise	case
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stared	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 procession	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 procession	det
7	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stared	obl
8	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 procession	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 gave	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 gave	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 frog	det
15	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bound	nummod
18	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 litter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 litter	det
21	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	16 gave	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 floor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 floor	det
25	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 landed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 landed	cc
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	30 landed	mark
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 landed	nsubj:pass
30	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stared	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 arm	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 arm	det
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 landed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 chair	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 chair	det
36	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arm	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 state	case
38	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 chair	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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.

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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