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title: Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope, while the hedgehog walked… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope, while the hedgehog walked slowly round the greyhound till he reached the jackal again. Who acts: jackal, 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 42

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Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope, while the hedgehog walked slowly round the greyhound till he reached the jackal again.

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**Who acts:** jackal, hedgehog · **What happens:** hold, walk, reach · **To what, where:** rope, jackal

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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 (jackal, 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:pg3027:18:42
# text = Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope, while the hedgehog walked slowly round the greyhound till he reached the jackal again.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the jackal | the rope |  |  |  | unwillingly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the hedgehog |  |  |  |  | round the greyhound; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round greyhound=Trajectory |
| 3 | **reach** | past | hedgehog | the jackal |  |  | again |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent jackal=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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