The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 134

In an instant his brothers had turned their bags upside down, so that the copper money tumbled out on to the floor, and were shovelling in handfuls of the silver instead.

Who acts: brothers, copper money · What happens: turn, tumble out, shovell · To what, where: bags, floor, handfuls

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, copper money), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bags	nmod:poss
9	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obj
10	upside	upside	ADV	_	11 down	advmod
11	down	down	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tumbled	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 tumbled	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 money	det
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 money	compound
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tumbled	nsubj
18	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 turned	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 tumbled	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tumbled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shovelling	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shovelling	cc
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shovelling	aux
27	shovelling	shovell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 turned	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 handfuls	case
29	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shovelling	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 silver	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 silver	det
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 handfuls	nmod
33	instead	instead	ADV	_	27 shovelling	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	Jack's brothers	provisions's bags		in a instant; down property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Patient in instant=Topic
2	tumble out	participle	the copper money		the floor		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	shovell	past · progressive	Jack's brothers not said here		handfuls of the silver	instead property	tree rules

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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