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title: One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jack… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed: Who acts: sorts, jackal. 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 95

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One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed:

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**Who acts:** sorts, jackal · **What happens:** walk, be, exclaim · **To what, where:** road

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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 (sorts, 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:pg3027:17:95
# text = One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed:
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | sorts *= sort* |  |  | a road | afternoon | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the jackal |  |  |  |  | of the two; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the jackal |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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