--- title: 'I would do my best, of course,' replied the jackal; 'but you must k… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'I would do my best, of course,' replied the jackal; 'but you must kill me a cow, and when we have eaten the flesh I will take the skin and make your shoes out of it.' Who acts: I, you, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/) / 105 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 105 'I would do my best, of course,' replied the jackal; 'but you must kill me a cow, and when we have eaten the flesh I will take the skin and make your shoes out of it.' **Who acts:** I, you, we · **What happens:** do, reply, kill, eat, take, make · **To what, where:** best, jackal, me, flesh, skin, shoes This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:17:105 # text = 'I would do my best, of course,' replied the jackal; 'but you must kill me a cow, and when we have eaten the flesh I will take the skin and make your shoes out of it.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 12 advmod _ _ 9 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 12 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 jackal jackal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 out out ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | would | I | my best | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | the jackal | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic | | 3 | **kill** | must | you | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer cow=Result | | 4 | **eat** | present · perfect | we | the flesh | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | | 5 | **take** | future | I | the skin | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 6 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | your shoes | | skin | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/106/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/)