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title: After some time some little partridges who were hopping about heard… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After some time some little partridges who were hopping about heard the poor panther's groans, and went up to see what was the matter. Who acts: little partridges, poor panther. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 117

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After some time some little partridges who were hopping about heard the poor panther's groans, and went up to see what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** little partridges, poor panther · **What happens:** hop about, hear, go up, see, be, groan · **To what, where:** groans, matter · **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 (little partridges, poor panther), 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:pg3027:17:117
# text = After some time some little partridges who were hopping about heard the poor panther's groans, and went up to see what was the matter.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop about** | past · progressive | some little partridges |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | some little partridges | the poor panther's groans |  |  | time | about *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go up** | past | some little partridges *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | some little partridges *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **groan** |  | the poor panther |  |  |  |  |  | nom groan «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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