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title: 'The fate of the hyena,' answered the jackal, laughing, and running… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The fate of the hyena,' answered the jackal, laughing, and running off at his best speed; for he saw two men armed with spears coming close behind the lion! Who acts: fate. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 98

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'The fate of the hyena,' answered the jackal, laughing, and running off at his best speed; for he saw two men armed with spears coming close behind the lion!

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**Who acts:** fate · **What happens:** answer, laugh, run off, see, come, fate · **To what, where:** jackal, best speed, two men, 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 (fate), 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:pg3027:18:98
# text = 'The fate of the hyena,' answered the jackal, laughing, and running off at his best speed; for he saw two men armed with spears coming close behind the lion!
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
32	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the fate of the hyena |  | the jackal |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jackal=Eventuality |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the fate of the hyena *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run off** | gerund | the fate of the hyena *not said here* |  |  | fate's best speed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past | fate | two men |  |  |  | armed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind the lion; close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind lion=Location |
| 6 | **fate** |  |  | the hyena |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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