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title: In an instant his brothers had turned their bags upside down, so tha… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant his brothers had turned their bags upside down, so that the copper money tumbled out on to the floor, and were shovelling in handfuls of the silver instead. Who acts: brothers, copper money. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tre
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 134

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In an instant his brothers had turned their bags upside down, so that the copper money tumbled out on to the floor, and were shovelling in handfuls of the silver instead.

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**Who acts:** brothers, copper money · **What happens:** turn, tumble out, shovell · **To what, where:** bags, floor, handfuls

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, copper money), 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:pg3027:19:134
# text = In an instant his brothers had turned their bags upside down, so that the copper money tumbled out on to the floor, and were shovelling in handfuls of the silver instead.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	shovelling	shovell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	handfuls	handful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **turn** | past · perfect | Jack's brothers | provisions's bags |  |  |  | in a instant; down *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Patient in instant=Topic |
| 2 | **tumble out** | participle | the copper money |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **shovell** | past · progressive | Jack's brothers *not said here* |  |  | handfuls of the silver |  | instead *property* | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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