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title: In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once li… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company. Who acts: country, sorts, two animals. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 94

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In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company.

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**Who acts:** country, sorts, two animals · **What happens:** be, live, make, see · **To what, where:** jackal, country, great friends, two animals, other company

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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 (country, sorts, two animals), 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:pg3027:17:94
# text = In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	often	often	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a country |  |  | there |  | of wild beasts of all sorts; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a jackal and a hedgehog |  | a country |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme jackal=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  | unlike the two animals | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | the two animals *not said here* | great friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | the two animals *not said here* |  | each other company |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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