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title: Now, while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf, the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road. Who acts: thoughts, Wolf, fox. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

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Now, while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf, the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, Wolf, fox · **What happens:** run, think, gallop, mind · **To what, where:** mind, fox, other road, wolf

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Wolf, fox), 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:pg3027:6:56
# text = Now, while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf, the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
25	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | this thoughts |  |  | the mind of the wolf |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · progressive | Wolf | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fox=Theme |
| 3 | **gallop** | past · progressive | the fox |  |  | the other road | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 4 | **mind** |  |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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