English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 7
And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half crowns, and golden guineas.
What happens: drop · To what, where: half crowns, mouth
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dropped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brayed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brayed | nsubj |
| 4 | brayed | bray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dropped | aux:pass |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brayed | advmod |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 10 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sixpences | amod |
| 11 | sixpences | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mouth | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crowns | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crowns | cc |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 crowns | compound |
| 15 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dropped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 guineas | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 guineas | cc |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 guineas | amod |
| 19 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dropped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past · passive | half crowns | Jack's mouth and silver sixpences | golden guineas obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: from mouth=Trajectory |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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