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title: The panther, who always believed what everybody told him, did exactl… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The panther, who always believed what everybody told him, did exactly as he was bid, and in two hours' time began to fasten on the shoes. Who acts: panther, everybody. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 113

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The panther, who always believed what everybody told him, did exactly as he was bid, and in two hours' time began to fasten on the shoes.

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**Who acts:** panther, everybody · **What happens:** believe, tell, bid, begin, fasten · **To what, where:** panther · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (panther, everybody), 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:pg3027:17:113
# text = The panther, who always believed what everybody told him, did exactly as he was bid, and in two hours' time began to fasten on the shoes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	bid	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **believe** | past | the panther |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | everybody |  | panther |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
| 3 | **bid** | past · passive · do-support |  | panther |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the panther *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fasten** | to-infinitive | the panther *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the shoes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on shoe=Co-Patient |

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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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