The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

When he had played for some time he took off his hat and passed it round, and dollars, and small silver coins, and even gold pieces, came tumbling in.

Who acts: crowd, small silver coins · What happens: play, take off, pass, come, tumble in · To what, where: hat

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, small silver coins), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 played	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	aux
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 took	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hat	nmod:poss
12	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	obj
16	round	round	ADV	_	14 passed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dollars	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dollars	cc
19	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coins	amod
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coins	compound
24	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pieces	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pieces	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 pieces	advmod
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pieces	compound
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 coins	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pieces	punct
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
32	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 came	xcomp
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 tumbling	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · perfect	crowd		time		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take off	past	crowd	crowd's hat			tree rules
3	pass	past	crowd not said here	hat		round property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
4	come	past	small silver coins				tree rules
5	tumble in	gerund	small silver coins not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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