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title: As he fastened the strap his eye fell on a cloth flapping outside th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he fastened the strap his eye fell on a cloth flapping outside the window. Who acts: Manus, eye, cloth. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 128

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As he fastened the strap his eye fell on a cloth flapping outside the window.

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**Who acts:** Manus, eye, cloth · **What happens:** fasten, fall, flap · **To what, where:** strap, cloth, window

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Manus, eye, cloth), 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:pg3027:15:128
# text = As he fastened the strap his eye fell on a cloth flapping outside the window.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past | Manus | the strap |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Manus's eye |  |  | a cloth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on cloth=Location |
| 3 | **flap** | gerund | a cloth *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside window=Location |

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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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