The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 22

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 · What happens: come, be, steal up, get, spring, wait · To what, where: lion cub, Manus, back

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 stole	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stole	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cub	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cub	compound
8	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bright	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bright	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bright	cop
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cub	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keen	cc
15	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bright	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct
17	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 stole	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Manus	case
20	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stole	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
23	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stole	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sprang	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sprang	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cub	det
31	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cub	compound
32	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sprang	nsubj
33	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stole	parataxis
34	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	33 sprang	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rest	cc
36	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rest	compound
37	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 rest	compound
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sprang	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 rock	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 rock	det
41	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rest	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wait	cc
43	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 sprang	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wait	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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.

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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