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title: The fierce beasts bounded towards him, roaring loudly, and would fai… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fierce beasts bounded towards him, roaring loudly, and would fain have eaten him, but quickly Manus stooped and spread the cloth upon the ground. Who acts: fierce beasts, Manus. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 9

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The fierce beasts bounded towards him, roaring loudly, and would fain have eaten him, but quickly Manus stooped and spread the cloth upon the ground.

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**Who acts:** fierce beasts, Manus · **What happens:** bound, roar, fain, eat, stoop, spread · **To what, where:** creature, cloth, ground

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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 (fierce beasts, Manus), 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:pg3027:16:9
# text = The fierce beasts bounded towards him, roaring loudly, and would fain have eaten him, but quickly Manus stooped and spread the cloth upon the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | past | the fierce beasts |  |  |  |  | towards creature | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 2 | **roar** | gerund | the fierce beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fain** | would | the fierce beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive · perfect | the fierce beasts *not said here* | creature |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **stoop** | past | Manus |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spread** | past | Manus *not said here* | the cloth |  | the ground |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme upon ground=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 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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