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title: The helmet suddenly burst with a loud noise, and fell in pieces on t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The helmet suddenly burst with a loud noise, and fell in pieces on the ground; and as they all turned to look they found the floor covered with precious stones which had fallen out of it. Who acts: helmet, ceremonies, precious stones. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 45

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The helmet suddenly burst with a loud noise, and fell in pieces on the ground; and as they all turned to look they found the floor covered with precious stones which had fallen out of it.

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**Who acts:** helmet, ceremonies, precious stones · **What happens:** fall, turn, look, find, cover · **To what, where:** pieces, ceremonies, floor, helmet

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmet, ceremonies, precious stones), 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:pg641:31:45
# text = The helmet suddenly burst with a loud noise, and fell in pieces on the ground; and as they all turned to look they found the floor covered with precious stones which had fallen out of it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	burst	burst	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the helmet with a loud noise |  |  | pieces |  | on the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | participle · passive |  | ceremonies *= ceremony* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | past | ceremonies *= ceremony* | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Topic |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | the floor *not said here* |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | past · perfect | precious stones |  |  | helmet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=Location |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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