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title: The first visit he paid was to the hyaenas, who trembled at the sigh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first visit he paid was to the hyaenas, who trembled at the sight of him, and whispered to each other, ‘How shall we escape from this terrible beast?’ Who acts: hare, first visit, hyaenas, we. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 14

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The first visit he paid was to the hyaenas, who trembled at the sight of him, and whispered to each other, ‘How shall we escape from this terrible beast?’

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**Who acts:** hare, first visit, hyaenas, we · **What happens:** pay, be, tremble, whisper, escape, sight · **To what, where:** first visit, sight, each, terrible beast, hare

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, first visit, hyaenas, we), 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:pg5615:36:14
# text = The first visit he paid was to the hyaenas, who trembled at the sight of him, and whispered to each other, ‘How shall we escape from this terrible beast?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obl	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | hare | the first visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | the first visit |  |  |  |  | to the hyaenas | tree rules |
| 3 | **tremble** | past | the hyaenas |  |  | the sight of hare |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the hyaenas *not said here* |  | each |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 5 | **escape** | shall | we |  |  | this terrible beast |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from beast=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | hare |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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 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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