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title: One day a jackal who was prowling about in search of a dinner came b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a jackal who was prowling about in search of a dinner came by chance to the foot of the rock where the dove’s nest was hidden away, and he suddenly bethought himself that if he could get nothing better he might manage to make a mouthful of one of the young doves. Who acts: jackal, king. A se
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 30

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One day a jackal who was prowling about in search of a dinner came by chance to the foot of the rock where the dove’s nest was hidden away, and he suddenly bethought himself that if he could get nothing better he might manage to make a mouthful of one of the young doves.

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**Who acts:** jackal, king · **What happens:** prowl, come, hide away, bethink, get, manage · **To what, where:** nest, king, nothing, mouthful, dinner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (jackal, king), 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:pg5615:34:30
# text = One day a jackal who was prowling about in search of a dinner came by chance to the foot of the rock where the dove’s nest was hidden away, and he suddenly bethought himself that if he could get nothing better he might manage to make a mouthful of one of the young doves.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	obj	_	_
43	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prowl** | past · progressive | a jackal |  |  |  |  | about search of a dinner | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about search=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | a jackal |  |  |  | day | by chance to the foot of the rock | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 3 | **hide away** | past · passive |  | the dove's nest |  |  |  | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bethink** | past | king | king |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | king | nothing |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **manage** | might | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | a mouthful of one of the young doves |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouthful=Product |
| 8 | **search** |  |  | a dinner |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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