--- title: Scarcely, however, had she fallen asleep when the lake monsters bega… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely, however, had she fallen asleep when the lake monsters began to make the most horrible noises just outside, while a small dragon crept in and terrified her so that she ran away, which was just what the dragon wanted! Who acts: queen, lake monsters, small dragon, dragon. A sentence of «The O --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/) / 100 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 100 Scarcely, however, had she fallen asleep when the lake monsters began to make the most horrible noises just outside, while a small dragon crept in and terrified her so that she ran away, which was just what the dragon wanted! **Who acts:** queen, lake monsters, small dragon, dragon · **What happens:** fall, begin, make, creep in, terrify, run away · **To what, where:** horrible noises, queen This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, lake monsters, small dragon, dragon), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:27:100 # text = Scarcely, however, had she fallen asleep when the lake monsters began to make the most horrible noises just outside, while a small dragon crept in and terrified her so that she ran away, which was just what the dragon wanted! 1 Scarcely scarcely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 monsters monster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 18 advmod _ _ 18 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 outside outside ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 terrified terrify VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | queen | | | | | asleep, however *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | the lake monsters | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the lake monsters *not said here* | the horrible noises | | | | outside *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | | 4 | **creep in** | past | a small dragon | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **terrify** | past | a small dragon *not said here* | queen | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 6 | **run away** | past | queen | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **want** | past | the dragon | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/101/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/)