The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 38

He opened the big gate leading into the courtyard, and was just going to walk in, when seven dragons rushed on him and asked him what he wanted?

Who acts: Prince, big gate · What happens: open, lead, go, walk in, rush, ask · To what, where: big gate, courtyard, seven dragons, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, big gate), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
6	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gate	acl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 courtyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtyard	det
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leading	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 opened	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 walk	mark
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 walk	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 when	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 going	advmod
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 dragons	nummod
21	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 when	nsubj
22	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 dragons	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rushed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	iobj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 wanted	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	ccomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	Prince	the big gate				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme
2	lead	gerund	the big gate not said here			the courtyard		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Destination
3	go	past · progressive	Prince not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk in	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush	participle		seven dragons not said here			on Prince	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
6	ask speech: ask	past	Prince not said here		Prince			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	want	past	Prince					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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