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title: Then the lid burst open, and a quantity of delicious little white ro… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the lid burst open, and a quantity of delicious little white rolls came tumbling out one after the other, followed by a stream of small fishes all ready cooked. Who acts: lid, quantity. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree a
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 30

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Then the lid burst open, and a quantity of delicious little white rolls came tumbling out one after the other, followed by a stream of small fishes all ready cooked.

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**Who acts:** lid, quantity · **What happens:** burst, come, tumble out, follow, cook · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid, quantity), 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:pg3282:9:30
# text = Then the lid burst open, and a quantity of delicious little white rolls came tumbling out one after the other, followed by a stream of small fishes all ready cooked.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the lid |  |  |  | then | open *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a quantity of delicious little white rolls |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tumble out** | gerund | a quantity of delicious little white rolls *not said here* | one after the other |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **follow** | participle | a quantity of delicious little white rolls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a stream of small fishes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by stream=Location |
| 5 | **cook** | participle | a quantity of delicious little white rolls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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