The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 16

No sooner had they opened the door leading into the courtyard than they were nearly upset by a huge monkey that came leaping straight to the doorway and escaped past them into the open fields.

Who acts: pupils, door, huge monkey · What happens: have, open, lead, upset, come, leap · To what, where: door, courtyard, pupils, doorway, open fields

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils, door, huge monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
8	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 door	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 courtyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 courtyard	det
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leading	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 upset	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 upset	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 upset	aux:pass
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 upset	advmod
16	upset	upset	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leading	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 monkey	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
19	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 monkey	amod
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 upset	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 monkey	acl:relcl
23	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	27 doorway	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 doorway	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 doorway	det
27	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leaping	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 escaped	cc
29	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
30	past	past	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 escaped	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 fields	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fields	det
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fields	amod
35	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 escaped	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				soon property	tree rules
2	open	past	pupils = pupil	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	lead	gerund	the door not said here		the courtyard		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Destination
4	upset	past · passive	a huge monkey	pupils = pupil		nearly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5	come	past	a huge monkey				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leap	gerund	a huge monkey not said here	the doorway			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doorway=Trajectory
7	escape	past	a huge monkey not said here		the open fields	past pupils = pupil	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Initial_Location into field=Destination

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.

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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