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title: And the lion cub killed all the men that guarded the castle, and Iar… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lion cub killed all the men that guarded the castle, and Iarlaid and his wife also, so that, in the end, Manus son of Oireal was crowned king of Lochlann. Who acts: lion cub, men. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 26

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And the lion cub killed all the men that guarded the castle, and Iarlaid and his wife also, so that, in the end, Manus son of Oireal was crowned king of Lochlann.

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**Who acts:** lion cub, men · **What happens:** kill, guard, crown · **To what, where:** men, castle, end

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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 (lion cub, men), 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:pg3027:16:26
# text = And the lion cub killed all the men that guarded the castle, and Iarlaid and his wife also, so that, in the end, Manus son of Oireal was crowned king of Lochlann.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | the lion cub | all men |  |  |  | so that | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | past | all men | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **crown** | past · passive |  | the end |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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