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title: And he and the hedgehog looked about for a nice dry cave in which to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he and the hedgehog looked about for a nice dry cave in which to make themselves comfortable for the night. Who acts: shepherd, nice dry cave. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 23

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And he and the hedgehog looked about for a nice dry cave in which to make themselves comfortable for the night.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, nice dry cave · **What happens:** look, make · **To what, where:** jackals

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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 (shepherd, nice dry cave), 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:pg3027:18:23
# text = And he and the hedgehog looked about for a nice dry cave in which to make themselves comfortable for the night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | shepherd |  |  |  |  | for a nice dry cave; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cave=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a nice dry cave | jackals *= jackal* |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |

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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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