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title: 'Don't be long, then,' called the jackal, as the hedgehog hurried of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Don't be long, then,' called the jackal, as the hedgehog hurried off at his best pace. Who acts: you, 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 46

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'Don't be long, then,' called the jackal, as the hedgehog hurried off at his best pace.

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**Who acts:** you, hedgehog · **What happens:** not be, call, hurry off · **To what, where:** jackal · **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), 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:pg3027:18:46
# text = 'Don't be long, then,' called the jackal, as the hedgehog hurried off at his best pace.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	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 | **not** **is** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the jackal |  |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurry off** | past | the hedgehog |  |  |  |  | at hedgehog's best pace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |

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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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