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title: When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver co… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver coin, and allowed him to fill his pipe with a special kind of tobacco. Who acts: students. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 77

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When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver coin, and allowed him to fill his pipe with a special kind of tobacco.

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**Who acts:** students · **What happens:** finish, hand, shine, allow, fill · **To what, where:** all, shining silver coin, Matte, Prince, pipe

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (students), 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:pg3454:23:77
# text = When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver coin, and allowed him to fill his pipe with a special kind of tobacco.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hand** | past | the students | a shining silver coin | Matte |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent matte=Destination coin=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **allow** | past | the students *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the students *not said here* | Prince's pipe |  |  |  | with a special kind of tobacco | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient with kind=Instrument |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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