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title: 'Oh! yes, you are right,' he said to the jackal; 'but I never can ea… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Oh! yes, you are right,' he said to the jackal; 'but I never can eat till I have first drunk. Who acts: you, hedgehog, I. 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 44

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'Oh! yes, you are right,' he said to the jackal; 'but I never can eat till I have first drunk.

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**Who acts:** you, hedgehog, I · **What happens:** be, say, not eat, have · **To what, where:** jackal, drunk · **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 (you, hedgehog, I), 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:pg3027:18:44
# text = 'Oh! yes, you are right,' he said to the jackal; 'but I never can eat till I have first drunk.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
27	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hedgehog |  | the jackal |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jackal=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | drunk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Patient |

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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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