--- title: The next minute, if anyone had been looking that way, he would have… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next minute, if anyone had been looking that way, he would have beheld a small reindeer calf speeding northwards, and by-and-by giving a great spring, which landed him in the midst of the stream. Who acts: next minute, Andras, small reindeer calf, great spring. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/) / 103 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 103 The next minute, if anyone had been looking that way, he would have beheld a small reindeer calf speeding northwards, and by-and-by giving a great spring, which landed him in the midst of the stream. **Who acts:** next minute, Andras, small reindeer calf, great spring · **What happens:** look, behold, speed, give, land · **To what, where:** way, small reindeer calf, Andras, midst This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next minute, Andras, small reindeer calf, great spring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:36:103 # text = The next minute, if anyone had been looking that way, he would have beheld a small reindeer calf speeding northwards, and by-and-by giving a great spring, which landed him in the midst of the stream. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux _ _ 16 beheld behold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 speeding speed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 northwards northwards ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | the next minute | that way | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **behold** | would · perfect | Andras | a small reindeer calf | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calf=Stimulus | | 3 | **speed** | gerund | a small reindeer calf *not said here* | | | | | northwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | gerund | the next minute *not said here* | | | | spring | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **land** | past | a great spring | Andras | | the midst of the stream | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in midst=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/104/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/)