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title: So saying she trotted off, and the jackal marched into the cave, whe… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying she trotted off, and the jackal marched into the cave, where he found ten little panthers, and instantly ate one up. Who acts: jackal, plenty. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 78

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So saying she trotted off, and the jackal marched into the cave, where he found ten little panthers, and instantly ate one up.

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**Who acts:** jackal, plenty · **What happens:** say, trot off, march, find, eat up · **To what, where:** cave, ten little panthers, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, plenty), 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:pg5615:34:78
# text = So saying she trotted off, and the jackal marched into the cave, where he found ten little panthers, and instantly ate one up.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	panthers	panther	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trot off** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **march** | past | the jackal |  |  |  |  | into the cave *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cave=Result |
| 4 | **find** | past | plenty | ten little panthers |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panther=Topic |
| 5 | **eat up** | past |  | one |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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