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title: At this the jackal got up, and going to the heap of grain which lay… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the jackal got up, and going to the heap of grain which lay close by, he divided it as before into eight portions--seven for himself and one for the sheep. Who acts: jackal, heap. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 61

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At this the jackal got up, and going to the heap of grain which lay close by, he divided it as before into eight portions--seven for himself and one for the sheep.

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**Who acts:** jackal, heap · **What happens:** get up, go, lie, divide · **To what, where:** this, heap, grain, eight portions

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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, heap), 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:pg3027:19:61
# text = At this the jackal got up, and going to the heap of grain which lay close by, he divided it as before into eight portions--seven for himself and one for the sheep.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the jackal |  |  | this |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the jackal *not said here* |  |  | the heap of grain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heap=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the heap of grain |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **divide** | past | jackal | grain |  | eight portions |  | before *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: 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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