The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 21

The moment it was opened the beasts rushed in, and each seized on a robber, killed him, and dragged the body down to the cellar.

Who acts: moment · What happens: open, rush in, seize, kill, drag down · To what, where: door, each, robber, fox, body, cellar

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rushed	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	aux:pass
5	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 moment	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beasts	det
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obj
8	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 rushed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seized	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 seized	nsubj:pass
13	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rushed	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 robber	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 robber	det
16	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
18	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rushed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dragged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dragged	cc
22	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rushed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dragged	obj
25	down	down	ADV	_	22 dragged	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 cellar	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cellar	det
28	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dragged	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive	the moment not said here	door			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme beast=Destination
2	rush in	past	the moment				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize	participle · passive		each	a robber		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	kill	past	the moment not said here	fox			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	drag down	past	the moment not said here	the body	the cellar	down property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to cellar=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 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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