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title: The hedgehop said no more, and pretended to be satisfied; but when s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 133

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The hedgehop said no more, and pretended to be satisfied; but when some days had gone by he woke the jackal, who was sleeping soundly after a hunt which had lasted several hours.

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**Who acts:** hedgehop, days, jackal, hunt · **What happens:** say, pretend, be, go, wake, sleep · **To what, where:** more, jackal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hedgehop, days, jackal, hunt), 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:pg3027:18:133
# text = The hedgehop said no more, and pretended to be satisfied; but when some days had gone by he woke the jackal, who was sleeping soundly after a hunt which had lasted several hours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehop	hedgehop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
28	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hedgehop | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | the hedgehop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the hedgehop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | some days |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wake** | past | hedgehop | the jackal |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jackal=Patient |
| 6 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the jackal |  |  |  | after a hunt | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **last** | past · perfect | a hunt |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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 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.

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