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title: The jackal remained where he was, shaking with laughter, for the wom… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The jackal remained where he was, shaking with laughter, for the woman was not in sight at all, and he had only sent the hedgehog away because he did not want him to know where the jars of butter were buried. Who acts: jackal, row, woman, hedgehog. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 119

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The jackal remained where he was, shaking with laughter, for the woman was not in sight at all, and he had only sent the hedgehog away because he did not want him to know where the jars of butter were buried.

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**Who acts:** jackal, row, woman, hedgehog · **What happens:** remain, shake, not be, send away, not want, know · **To what, where:** all, hedgehog, jars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jackal, row, woman, hedgehog), 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:pg3027:18:119
# text = The jackal remained where he was, shaking with laughter, for the woman was not in sight at all, and he had only sent the hedgehog away because he did not want him to know where the jars of butter were buried.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the jackal |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | past · progressive | row |  |  |  |  | with laughter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with laughter=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the woman |  |  | all |  | for sight | tree rules |
| 4 | **send away** | past · perfect | row | the hedgehog |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | row | hedgehog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | hedgehog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **bury** | past · passive |  | the jars of butter |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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