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title: 'I think if I were to take a bit out of your haunch you would jump b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I think if I were to take a bit out of your haunch you would jump better,' said the wolf, giving a snap at her as he spoke. Who acts: I, you, Wolf. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 114

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'I think if I were to take a bit out of your haunch you would jump better,' said the wolf, giving a snap at her as he spoke.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Wolf · **What happens:** think, take, jump, say, give, speak · **To what, where:** bit, wolf, snap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Wolf), 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:pg3027:6:114
# text = 'I think if I were to take a bit out of your haunch you would jump better,' said the wolf, giving a snap at her as he spoke.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	haunch	haunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 3 | **jump** | would | you |  |  |  |  | of your haunch; good *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of haunch=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | I *not said here* | a snap |  |  |  | at moon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent snap=Theme at she=Asset |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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