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title: By chance in the afternoon a leopard appeared, and the weaver instan… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By chance in the afternoon a leopard appeared, and the weaver instantly ran home as fast as he could to get the stones which the farmer had shown him, to throw at the creature. Who acts: leopard, weaver. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 51

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By chance in the afternoon a leopard appeared, and the weaver instantly ran home as fast as he could to get the stones which the farmer had shown him, to throw at the creature.

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**Who acts:** leopard, weaver · **What happens:** appear, run, get, show, throw · **To what, where:** stones, farmer, creature

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leopard, weaver), 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:pg3027:13:51
# text = By chance in the afternoon a leopard appeared, and the weaver instantly ran home as fast as he could to get the stones which the farmer had shown him, to throw at the creature.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **appear** | past | a leopard |  |  |  |  | by chance in the afternoon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 2 | **run** | past | the weaver |  |  |  |  | fast, home, instantly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the weaver *not said here* | the stones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
| 4 | **show** | past · perfect · passive |  | the farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | the weaver *not said here* |  |  | the creature |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at creature=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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