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title: The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, wi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders. Who acts: little old bedstead. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 22

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The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.

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**Who acts:** little old bedstead · **What happens:** seat, read, patch, throw · **To what, where:** fakeer, little old bedstead, Koran, patched cloak, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old bedstead), 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:pg3027:3:22
# text = The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	patched	patch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the fakeer |  | a little old bedstead |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | a little old bedstead *not said here* | the Koran |  |  |  | with King's patched cloak | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koran=Topic |
| 3 | **patch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **throw** | participle |  | King's patched cloak *not said here* |  | King's shoulders |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |

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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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