--- title: And that night, while he was sleeping, there came a wise man, who wa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And that night, while he was sleeping, there came a wise man, who was his father's friend, and awoke him saying: 'Danger lies very close to you, Manus, son of Oireal. Who acts: Iarlaid, wise man, Danger. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/86/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/) / 86 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 86 And that night, while he was sleeping, there came a wise man, who was his father's friend, and awoke him saying: 'Danger lies very close to you, Manus, son of Oireal. **Who acts:** Iarlaid, wise man, Danger · **What happens:** sleep, come, be, awake, say, lie · **To what, where:** friend, Iarlaid, Manus · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Iarlaid, wise man, Danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:15:86 # text = And that night, while he was sleeping, there came a wise man, who was his father's friend, and awoke him saying: 'Danger lies very close to you, Manus, son of Oireal. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Danger Danger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Manus Manus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Oireal Oireal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past · progressive | Iarlaid | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend | | | there | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend | Iarlaid's father's friend | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **awake** | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend *not said here* | Iarlaid | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **lie** | present | Danger | Manus | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/)