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title: Just at this moment the white doe sprang out of a thicket near by, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at this moment the white doe sprang out of a thicket near by, and started back trembling when she beheld her enemy lying there. Who acts: white doe, last, enemy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 36

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Just at this moment the white doe sprang out of a thicket near by, and started back trembling when she beheld her enemy lying there.

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**Who acts:** white doe, last, enemy · **What happens:** spring out, start back, tremble, behold, lie · **To what, where:** thicket, enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white doe, last, enemy), 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:pg3027:24:36
# text = Just at this moment the white doe sprang out of a thicket near by, and started back trembling when she beheld her enemy lying there.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	near	near	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring out** | past | the white doe | a thicket |  |  | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location thicket=Theme |
| 2 | **start back** | past | the white doe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | the white doe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **behold** | past | last | last's enemy |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | last's enemy *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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