The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 128
As he fastened the strap his eye fell on a cloth flapping outside the window.
Who acts: Manus, eye, cloth · What happens: fasten, fall, flap · To what, where: strap, cloth, window
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.
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 fastened | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strap | det |
| 5 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eye | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cloth | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloth | det |
| 11 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | flapping | flap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cloth | acl |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flapping | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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