The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 27

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 · What happens: ride, sit, stand · To what, where: front, fat mouse, box, two little frogs

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.

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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hedgehogs	nummod
2	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 outriders	case
7	outriders	outrider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 box	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
15	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mouse	amod
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 coachman	case
18	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
21	behind	behind	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 frogs	nummod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 frogs	amod
25	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stood	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 footmen	case
27	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stood	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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 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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