The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 30

Then the lid burst open, and a quantity of delicious little white rolls came tumbling out one after the other, followed by a stream of small fishes all ready cooked.

Who acts: lid, quantity · What happens: burst, come, tumble out, follow, cook · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid, quantity), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 burst	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lid	det
3	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burst	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 quantity	det
9	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 rolls	case
11	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rolls	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rolls	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rolls	amod
14	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 quantity	nmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
16	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 tumbling	compound:prt
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 tumbling	obl
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 followed	punct
23	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	advcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 stream	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 followed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fishes	case
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fishes	amod
29	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stream	nmod
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 ready	advmod
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fishes	amod
32	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ready	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	the lid		then	open property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a quantity of delicious little white rolls				tree rules
3	tumble out	gerund	a quantity of delicious little white rolls not said here	one after the other			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	follow	participle	a quantity of delicious little white rolls not said here			by a stream of small fishes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by stream=Location
5	cook	participle	a quantity of delicious little white rolls not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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