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title: There is a melon garden about two miles from here, and as jackals ar… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a melon garden about two miles from here, and as jackals are very fond of melons they are nearly sure to have gone there to feed. Who acts: melon garden, jackals. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 3

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There is a melon garden about two miles from here, and as jackals are very fond of melons they are nearly sure to have gone there to feed.

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**Who acts:** melon garden, jackals · **What happens:** be, go, feed

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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 (melon garden, jackals), 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:pg3027:18:3
# text = There is a melon garden about two miles from here, and as jackals are very fond of melons they are nearly sure to have gone there to feed.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a melon garden |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | jackals |  |  |  |  | of melons; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | jackals *= jackal* |  |  |  |  | nearly, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive · perfect | jackals *= jackal* *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feed** | to-infinitive | jackals *= jackal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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