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title: They fell at once to the ground, and out poured a rain of gold piece… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They fell at once to the ground, and out poured a rain of gold pieces, till the little court-yard shone like the sun. Who acts: cords. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 111

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They fell at once to the ground, and out poured a rain of gold pieces, till the little court-yard shone like the sun.

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**Who acts:** cords · **What happens:** fall, pour, shine, rain · **To what, where:** rain, little court yard, gold pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cords), 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:pg3282:21:111
# text = They fell at once to the ground, and out poured a rain of gold pieces, till the little court-yard shone like the sun.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | cords *= cord* |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **pour** | past |  | a rain of gold pieces |  |  | till the little court yard | out *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | the little court yard *not said here* |  |  |  | like the sun. | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rain** |  |  | gold pieces |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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 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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