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title: Then he jumped high into the air, and landed safe on the other side,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he jumped high into the air, and landed safe on the other side, and after turning round to be sure that there was no chance of anyone pursuing him, trotted happily home to his grandmother. Who acts: Hare, chance, anyone. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 77

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Then he jumped high into the air, and landed safe on the other side, and after turning round to be sure that there was no chance of anyone pursuing him, trotted happily home to his grandmother.

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**Who acts:** Hare, chance, anyone · **What happens:** jump, land, turn round, be, pursue, trot · **To what, where:** air, other side, Hare

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, chance, anyone), 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:pg3282:11:77
# text = Then he jumped high into the air, and landed safe on the other side, and after turning round to be sure that there was no chance of anyone pursuing him, trotted happily home to his grandmother.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nmod	_	_
31	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
34	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | Hare |  |  |  | then | into the air *result*; high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 2 | **land** | past | Hare *not said here* |  |  | the other side |  | safe *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Destination |
| 3 | **turn round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | no chance of anyone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pursue** | gerund |  | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **trot** | past | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Hare's grandmother *result*; happily, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to grandmother=Result |
| 8 | **chance** |  | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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