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title: But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner hid the meat behind him, so that the baboon could not find it. Who acts: standing, baboon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 11

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But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner hid the meat behind him, so that the baboon could not find it.

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**Who acts:** standing, baboon · **What happens:** grow, stand, hide, not find · **To what, where:** rabbit, corner, meat

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (standing, baboon), 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:pg3027:4:11
# text = But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner hid the meat behind him, so that the baboon could not find it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	baboon	baboon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rabbit |  |  |  | as cunning as Gudu | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | a corner |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 3 | **hide** | past | standing | the meat |  |  |  | behind Gudu | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient behind he=Location |
| 4 | **not** **find** | could | the baboon | rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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