The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 111

They fell at once to the ground, and out poured a rain of gold pieces, till the little court-yard shone like the sun.

Who acts: cords · What happens: fall, pour, shine, rain · To what, where: rain, little court yard, gold pieces

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cords), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 fell	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poured	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 poured	cc
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 poured	advmod
11	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pieces	compound
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rain	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yard	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	23 yard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yard	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yard	amod
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yard	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 court	punct
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poured	obl
24	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 yard	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 sun.	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun.	det
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shone	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	cords = cord			to the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	pour	past		a rain of gold pieces	till the little court yard	out property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient
3	shine	participle		the little court yard not said here		like the sun.	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rain			gold pieces			nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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