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title: But in the end, when the wife of Oireal fell sick, Manus fled from t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the end, when the wife of Oireal fell sick, Manus fled from the tower which was his prison, and stole back to his on home. Who acts: wife, Manus, tower. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 76

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But in the end, when the wife of Oireal fell sick, Manus fled from the tower which was his prison, and stole back to his on home.

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**Who acts:** wife, Manus, tower · **What happens:** fall, flee, be, steal back · **To what, where:** end, prison

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Manus, tower), 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:pg3027:15:76
# text = But in the end, when the wife of Oireal fell sick, Manus fled from the tower which was his prison, and stole back to his on home.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the wife of Oireal |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | past | Manus |  |  |  | in the end | from the tower | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the tower | Manus's prison |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal back** | past | Manus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Manus's home | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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