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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 19

He dragged it all the way up the ladder of his barn, when the goat disappeared, but showers and showers of money came tumbling through the ceiling.

Who acts: man, goat, showers · What happens: drag, disappear, come, tumble · To what, where: goat, ceiling

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, goat, showers), 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

nsubjobjdet:predetdetobl:unmarkedcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjconjpunctccnsubjccconjcasenmodadvclxcompcasedetoblpunctrootHePRONdraggedVERBitPRONallDETtheDETwayNOUNupADPtheDETladderNOUNofADPhisPRONbarnNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETgoatNOUNdisappearedVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJshowersNOUNandCCONJshowersNOUNofADPmoneyNOUNcameVERBtumblingVERBthroughADPtheDETceilingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 draggednsubj
2draggeddragVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 draggedobj
4allallDETPronType=Tot6 waydet:predet
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 waydet
6waywayNOUNNumber=Sing2 draggedobl:unmarked
7upupADP_9 laddercase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 ladderdet
9ladderladderNOUNNumber=Sing2 draggedobl
10ofofADP_12 barncase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 barnnmod:poss
12barnbarnNOUNNumber=Sing9 laddernmod
13,,PUNCT_17 disappearedpunct
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 disappearedadvmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 goatdet
16goatgoatNOUNNumber=Sing17 disappearednsubj
17disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 draggedconj
18,,PUNCT_25 camepunct
19butbutCCONJ_25 camecc
20showersshowerNOUNNumber=Plur25 camensubj
21andandCCONJ_22 showerscc
22showersshowerNOUNNumber=Plur20 showersconj
23ofofADP_24 moneycase
24moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing22 showersnmod
25camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 disappearedadvcl
26tumblingtumbleVERBVerbForm=Ger25 camexcomp
27throughthroughADP_29 ceilingcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 ceilingdet
29ceilingceilingNOUNNumber=Sing26 tumblingobl
30..PUNCT_2 draggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dragpastmangoatup the ladder of man's barn; all way obl:unmarkedvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2disappearpastthe goatvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3comepastshowers and showers of moneytree rules
4tumblegerundshowers and showers of money not said herethe ceilingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ceiling=Initial_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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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