The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 5

So he set to work, and with much trouble he pulled the bag out on to the floor, and sat gazing in astonishment at the heap of coins which tumbled out of it.

Who acts: man, coins · What happens: set, work, pull out, sit, gaze, tumble · To what, where: bag, floor

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pulled	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trouble	amod
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pulled	nsubj
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bag	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	12 pulled	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 floor	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
23	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 astonishment	case
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gazing	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 heap	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 heap	det
28	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gazing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 coins	case
30	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heap	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 tumbled	nsubj
32	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 coins	acl:relcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 it	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tumbled	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	man				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pull out	past	man	the bag	the floor	with much trouble	tree rules
4	sit	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gaze	gerund				at the heap of coins; in astonishment	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in astonishment=Theme
6	tumble	past	coins		floor		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out it=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: «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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