The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 77

When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver coin, and allowed him to fill his pipe with a special kind of tobacco.

Who acts: students · What happens: finish, hand, shine, allow, fill · To what, where: all, shining silver coin, Matte, Prince, pipe

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (students), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 finished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux:pass
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 handed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 students	det
7	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 handed	nsubj
8	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coin	det
11	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 coin	amod
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coin	compound
13	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 allowed	cc
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 handed	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allowed	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fill	mark
19	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pipe	nmod:poss
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fill	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 kind	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 kind	det
24	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kind	amod
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fill	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 tobacco	case
27	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kind	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		all			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	hand	past	the students	a shining silver coin	Matte		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent matte=Destination coin=Theme
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	allow	past	the students not said here		Prince		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	fill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the students not said here	Prince's pipe		with a special kind of tobacco	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient with kind=Instrument

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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