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title: After a little while, however, the jackal became discontented with t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 61

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After a little while, however, the jackal became discontented with this arrangement, declaring that none of his friends, who were quite different from those of the hyena, could see the splendour of the mantle, and that it was only fair that he should sometimes be allowed to wear it by day.

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**Who acts:** none, splendour, hyena · **What happens:** discontent, declare, be, see, allow, wear · **To what, where:** jackal, those, splendour, hyena

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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 (none, splendour, hyena), 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:pg3027:18:61
# text = After a little while, however, the jackal became discontented with this arrangement, declaring that none of his friends, who were quite different from those of the hyena, could see the splendour of the mantle, and that it was only fair that he should sometimes be allowed to wear it by day.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	discontented	discontent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	52	advmod	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discontent** | past · passive |  | the jackal |  |  | while | with this arrangement; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | those |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | could | none | the splendour of the mantle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | splendour |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **allow** | should · passive |  | hyena |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | hyena *not said here* | splendour |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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