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title: Presently it grew late, but still Moti wandered on until suddenly in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently it grew late, but still Moti wandered on until suddenly in the gathering darkness he came right upon a tiger who was contentedly eating his horse. Who acts: mud, Moti, tiger. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 89

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Presently it grew late, but still Moti wandered on until suddenly in the gathering darkness he came right upon a tiger who was contentedly eating his horse.

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**Who acts:** mud, Moti, tiger · **What happens:** grow, wander, come, eat · **To what, where:** gathering darkness, horse

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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 (mud, Moti, tiger), 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:pg3454:15:89
# text = Presently it grew late, but still Moti wandered on until suddenly in the gathering darkness he came right upon a tiger who was contentedly eating his horse.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	until	until	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | mud |  |  |  |  | late, presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Moti |  |  | the gathering darkness | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | Moti | the gathering darkness *not said here* |  |  |  | upon a tiger | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darkness=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | past · progressive | a tiger | Moti's horse |  |  |  | contentedly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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