---
title: Of course each wanted to have it, and they almost quarrelled over th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course each wanted to have it, and they almost quarrelled over the matter; but at length it was settled that the hyena should wear the cloak by day and the jackal by night. Who acts: jackals, hyena. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/60/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/) / 60

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 60

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Of course each wanted to have it, and they almost quarrelled over the matter; but at length it was settled that the hyena should wear the cloak by day and the jackal by night.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** jackals, hyena · **What happens:** want, have, quarrell, settle, wear · **To what, where:** course, matter, length, cloak

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (jackals, hyena), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:18:60
# text = Of course each wanted to have it, and they almost quarrelled over the matter; but at length it was settled that the hyena should wear the cloak by day and the jackal by night.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of each | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | course |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **quarrell** | past | jackals *= jackal* |  |  | the matter |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **settle** | past · passive |  | course |  | length |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at length=Location |
| 5 | **wear** | should | the hyena | the cloak |  |  | day; night |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/59/)
- next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/61/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/)