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title: Then Jack my Hedgehog set off for the first kingdom, and there the K… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jack my Hedgehog set off for the first kingdom, and there the King had given strict orders that if anyone should be seen riding a cock and carrying a bagpipe he was to be chased away and shot at, and on no account to be allowed to enter the palace. Who acts: you, Hedgehog, King, strict orders. 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 53

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Then Jack my Hedgehog set off for the first kingdom, and there the King had given strict orders that if anyone should be seen riding a cock and carrying a bagpipe he was to be chased away and shot at, and on no account to be allowed to enter the palace.

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**Who acts:** you, Hedgehog, King, strict orders · **What happens:** jack, set off, give, see, ride, carry · **To what, where:** account, strict orders, cock, bagpipe, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. 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, King, strict orders), 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:pg7277:48:53
# text = Then Jack my Hedgehog set off for the first kingdom, and there the King had given strict orders that if anyone should be seen riding a cock and carrying a bagpipe he was to be chased away and shot at, and on no account to be allowed to enter the palace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	jack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	shot	shot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	46	det	_	_
46	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jack** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | no account | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set off** | past | my Hedgehog |  |  |  |  | for the first kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | the King | strict orders |  | there |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | should · passive |  | strict orders |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride** | gerund | strict orders *not said here* | a cock |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | strict orders *not said here* | a bagpipe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **chase away** | past · passive |  | cock |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **shot** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **allow** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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