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title: He jumped up quietly and began to prowl around to see whether anyone… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He jumped up quietly and began to prowl around to see whether anyone seemed to be awake, but, though he managed to arouse a few men and beasts by falling over them, he walked in the shadow of the archways round the whole serai without coming across a likely thief. Who acts: Moti, anyone. A sentence 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 48

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He jumped up quietly and began to prowl around to see whether anyone seemed to be awake, but, though he managed to arouse a few men and beasts by falling over them, he walked in the shadow of the archways round the whole serai without coming across a likely thief.

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**Who acts:** Moti, anyone · **What happens:** jump up, begin, prowl around, see, seem, be · **To what, where:** few men, shadow, likely thief, archways · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (Moti, anyone), 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:pg3454:15:48
# text = He jumped up quietly and began to prowl around to see whether anyone seemed to be awake, but, though he managed to arouse a few men and beasts by falling over them, he walked in the shadow of the archways round the whole serai without coming across a likely thief.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	prowl	prowl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	arouse	arouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	archways	archway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	round	round	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	serai	serai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
48	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
50	across	across	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | Moti |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prowl around** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **seem** | past | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **manage** | past | Moti |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **arouse** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* | a few men and beasts |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 9 | **fall** | gerund | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over men *= man* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location |
| 10 | **walk** | past | Moti |  |  | the shadow of the archways |  | round the whole serai | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Trajectory |
| 11 | **come** | gerund | Moti *not said here* |  |  | a likely thief |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across thief=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **shadow** |  |  | the archways |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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