--- title: However, they all took their places on wooden seats placed round the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, they all took their places on wooden seats placed round the dead cow, which was laid across the boughs of a fallen tree, and began their dinner, each jackal fixing his eyes greedily on the piece of meat before him. Who acts: numbers, jackal. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/141/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/) / 141 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 141 However, they all took their places on wooden seats placed round the dead cow, which was laid across the boughs of a fallen tree, and began their dinner, each jackal fixing his eyes greedily on the piece of meat before him. **Who acts:** numbers, jackal · **What happens:** take, place, lay, fall, begin, fix · **To what, where:** places, wooden seats, dead cow, boughs, dinner, eyes 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 (numbers, jackal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:17:141 # text = However, they all took their places on wooden seats placed round the dead cow, which was laid across the boughs of a fallen tree, and began their dinner, each jackal fixing his eyes greedily on the piece of meat before him. 1 However however ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 across across ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 jackal jackal NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 35 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 greedily greedily ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | numbers *= number* | numbers's places | | wooden seats | | however *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on seat=Destination | | 2 | **place** | participle | | wooden seats *not said here* | | | | round the dead cow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** | past · passive | | the dead cow | | the boughs of a fallen tree | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | numbers *= number* *not said here* | numbers's dinner | | | before Jackal | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality | | 6 | **fix** | gerund | each jackal *not said here* | Jackal's eyes | | the piece of meat | | greedily *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/142/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/)