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title: At length, however, the panther caught sight of his enemy, at the sa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, however, the panther caught sight of his enemy, at the same moment that the jackal had caught sight of him. Who acts: panther. 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 130

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At length, however, the panther caught sight of his enemy, at the same moment that the jackal had caught sight of him.

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**Who acts:** panther · **What happens:** catch, sight · **To what, where:** sight, length, that, enemy, Jackal

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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), 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:pg3027:17:130
# text = At length, however, the panther caught sight of his enemy, at the same moment that the jackal had caught sight of him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
23	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the panther | sight of panther's enemy |  | length | moment | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sight=Theme at length=Asset |
| 2 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Theme |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | panther's enemy |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | Jackal |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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