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title: And when night came, the lion cub, whose eyes were bright and keen,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when night came, the lion cub, whose eyes were bright and keen, stole up to Manus, and Manus got on his back, and the lion cub sprang ashore and bade Manus rest on the rock and wait for him. Who acts: night, eyes, Manus, lion cub. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 22

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And when night came, the lion cub, whose eyes were bright and keen, stole up to Manus, and Manus got on his back, and the lion cub sprang ashore and bade Manus rest on the rock and wait for him.

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**Who acts:** night, eyes, Manus, lion cub · **What happens:** come, be, steal up, get, spring, wait · **To what, where:** lion cub, Manus, back

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, eyes, Manus, lion cub), 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:pg3027:16:22
# text = And when night came, the lion cub, whose eyes were bright and keen, stole up to Manus, and Manus got on his back, and the lion cub sprang ashore and bade Manus rest on the rock and wait for him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
34	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night | the lion cub |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | eyes |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal up** | past |  |  | Manus |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | past | Manus |  |  | Manus's back |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source |
| 6 | **spring** | past | the lion cub |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wait** | infinitive | the lion cub *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Manus | vn exist-47.1 «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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