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title: Very, very early, before the sun was properly up, the jackal and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very, very early, before the sun was properly up, the jackal and the hedgehog were pulling at the shepherd's cloak. Who acts: sun, jackal. 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 26

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Very, very early, before the sun was properly up, the jackal and the hedgehog were pulling at the shepherd's cloak.

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**Who acts:** sun, jackal · **What happens:** be, pull

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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 (sun, jackal), 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:pg3027:18:26
# text = Very, very early, before the sun was properly up, the jackal and the hedgehog were pulling at the shepherd's cloak.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | properly, up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | past · progressive | the jackal and the hedgehog |  |  |  |  | at the shepherd's cloak; early *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at cloak=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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