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title: After running several miles the jackal thought he was safe from purs… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After running several miles the jackal thought he was safe from pursuit, and seeing a lion and another hyena talking together, he strolled up to join them. Who acts: jackal, luck, hyena. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 75

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After running several miles the jackal thought he was safe from pursuit, and seeing a lion and another hyena talking together, he strolled up to join them.

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**Who acts:** jackal, luck, hyena · **What happens:** run, think, be, see, talk, stroll up · **To what, where:** several miles, pursuit, lion, jackals · **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, luck, 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:pg3027:18:75
# text = After running several miles the jackal thought he was safe from pursuit, and seeing a lion and another hyena talking together, he strolled up to join them.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	strolled	stroll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | the jackal *not said here* | several miles |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the jackal |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | luck |  |  | pursuit |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | luck *not said here* | a lion and another hyena |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | another hyena *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stroll up** | past | luck |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **join** | to-infinitive | luck *not said here* | jackals *= jackal* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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