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title: One day a smart young wolf went out to hunt, promising his grandfath… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a smart young wolf went out to hunt, promising his grandfather and grandmother that he would be sure to be back before bedtime. Who acts: smart young wolf, Wolf. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 17

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One day a smart young wolf went out to hunt, promising his grandfather and grandmother that he would be sure to be back before bedtime.

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**Who acts:** smart young wolf, Wolf · **What happens:** go out, hunt, promise, be · **To what, where:** grandfather

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smart young wolf, Wolf), 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:pg3027:34:17
# text = One day a smart young wolf went out to hunt, promising his grandfather and grandmother that he would be sure to be back before bedtime.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	ccomp	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | a smart young wolf |  |  |  | day | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | a smart young wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | a smart young wolf *not said here* |  | Wolf's grandfather and grandmother |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent grandfather=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | would | Wolf |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | before bedtime | back *property* | tree rules |

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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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