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title: When he had played for some time he took off his hat and passed it r… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had played for some time he took off his hat and passed it round, and dollars, and small silver coins, and even gold pieces, came tumbling in. Who acts: crowd, small silver coins. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

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When he had played for some time he took off his hat and passed it round, and dollars, and small silver coins, and even gold pieces, came tumbling in.

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**Who acts:** crowd, small silver coins · **What happens:** play, take off, pass, come, tumble in · **To what, where:** hat

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, small silver coins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:11:67
# text = When he had played for some time he took off his hat and passed it round, and dollars, and small silver coins, and even gold pieces, came tumbling in.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · perfect | crowd |  |  |  | time |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take off** | past | crowd | crowd's hat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | crowd *not said here* | hat |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | past | small silver coins |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tumble in** | gerund | small silver coins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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