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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 66

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But soon there came past a tall man--oh! twice as tall as father--with a long red beard and a red tunic fastened with a silver girdle, from which hung a silver-handled knife.

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**What happens:** come, fasten, hang, handle · **To what, where:** red tunic, handled knife

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3027:35:66
# text = But soon there came past a tall man--oh! twice as tall as father--with a long red beard and a red tunic fastened with a silver girdle, from which hung a silver-handled knife.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	past	past	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | past a tall man; with a long red beard and a red tunic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past man=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fasten** | participle |  | a red tunic *not said here* |  |  |  | with a silver girdle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with girdle=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | a handled knife |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 4 | **handle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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