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title: And he held out his paw in such an inviting manner that the sheep go… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he held out his paw in such an inviting manner that the sheep got up and trotted beside him till they reached home. Who acts: jackal, sheep. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 31

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And he held out his paw in such an inviting manner that the sheep got up and trotted beside him till they reached home.

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**Who acts:** jackal, sheep · **What happens:** hold out, invite, get up, trot, reach · **To what, where:** paw, inviting manner

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jackal, sheep), 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:pg3027:19:31
# text = And he held out his paw in such an inviting manner that the sheep got up and trotted beside him till they reached home.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold out** | past | jackal | jackal's paw |  | such inviting manner |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in manner=Location |
| 2 | **invite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get up** | past | the sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **trot** | past | the sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside jackal | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory |
| 5 | **reach** | past | sheep |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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