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title: And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half crowns, and golden guineas. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 7

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And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half crowns, and golden guineas.

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**What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** half crowns, mouth

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:45:7
# text = And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half crowns, and golden guineas.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brayed	bray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sixpences	sixpence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	compound	_	_
15	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **drop** | past · passive |  | half crowns |  | Jack's mouth and silver sixpences |  | golden guineas *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: from mouth=Trajectory |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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