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title: After a long chase the wolves managed to surround their prey, and th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long chase the wolves managed to surround their prey, and the mink, seeing it was no good resisting any more, gave himself up. Who acts: wolves, prey. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 68

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After a long chase the wolves managed to surround their prey, and the mink, seeing it was no good resisting any more, gave himself up.

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**Who acts:** wolves, prey · **What happens:** manage, surround, see, be, give up · **To what, where:** mink, prey, good resisting, Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wolves, prey), 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:pg3027:34:68
# text = After a long chase the wolves managed to surround their prey, and the mink, seeing it was no good resisting any more, gave himself up.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	surround	surround	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mink	mink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	resisting	resisting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	iobj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | the wolves | the mink |  |  | after a long chase |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **surround** | to-infinitive | the wolves *not said here* | Mink's prey |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prey=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | the wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | prey | no good resisting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give up** | past | the wolves *not said here* |  | Wolf |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source |

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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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