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title: At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run away, and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer. Who acts: jackal, friend. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 50

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At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run away, and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer.

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**Who acts:** jackal, friend · **What happens:** guess, run away, wait · **To what, where:** length · **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, friend), 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:pg3027:18:50
# text = At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run away, and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | the jackal |  |  | length |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **run away** | past · perfect | hedgehog's friend |  |  |  |  | for some reason; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for reason=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the jackal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for hedgehog's breakfast; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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