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title: But the hedgehog, who sometimes showed more cunning than anyone woul… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the hedgehog, who sometimes showed more cunning than anyone would have guessed, answered: Who acts: hedgehog. 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 37

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But the hedgehog, who sometimes showed more cunning than anyone would have guessed, answered:

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**Who acts:** hedgehog · **What happens:** show, guess, answer · **To what, where:** cunning, anyone · **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 (hedgehog), 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:pg3027:18:37
# text = But the hedgehog, who sometimes showed more cunning than anyone would have guessed, answered:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the hedgehog | cunning |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cunning=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **guess** | would · perfect · passive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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