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title: And throwing the cloak over his back he darted away across the plain… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And throwing the cloak over his back he darted away across the plain, and was seen no more by his friend the hyena. Who acts: luck, friend. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 74

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And throwing the cloak over his back he darted away across the plain, and was seen no more by his friend the hyena.

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**Who acts:** luck, friend · **What happens:** throw, dart away, see · **To what, where:** cloak, back, plain, hyena

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, friend), 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:pg3027:18:74
# text = And throwing the cloak over his back he darted away across the plain, and was seen no more by his friend the hyena.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | the cloak |  | luck's back |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over back=Destination |
| 2 | **dart away** | past | luck |  |  | the plain |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive | luck's friend | the hyena |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyena=Stimulus |

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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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