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title: Disgusted with his failure, but more angry than ever, the panther la… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Disgusted with his failure, but more angry than ever, the panther lay down for a while to consider what he should do next, and as he was thinking, an old man came by. Who acts: panther, old man, Jackal. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 132

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Disgusted with his failure, but more angry than ever, the panther lay down for a while to consider what he should do next, and as he was thinking, an old man came by.

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**Who acts:** panther, old man, Jackal · **What happens:** disgust, lie down, consider, do, think, come by

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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, old man, Jackal), 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:pg3027:17:132
# text = Disgusted with his failure, but more angry than ever, the panther lay down for a while to consider what he should do next, and as he was thinking, an old man came by.
1	Disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	next	next	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disgust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with Jackal's failure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | the panther |  |  |  | while | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | to-infinitive | the panther *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | should | panther |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | panther |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come by** | past | a old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fail** |  | Jackal |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act 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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