--- title: At the entrance gigantic bats, owls, and crows set upon him from all… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the entrance gigantic bats, owls, and crows set upon him from all sides; but the dragon had teeth and claws, while the queen broke off sharp bits of glass and stabbed and cut in her anxiety to help her husband. Who acts: gigantic bats, dragon, queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/30/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/) / 30 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 30 At the entrance gigantic bats, owls, and crows set upon him from all sides; but the dragon had teeth and claws, while the queen broke off sharp bits of glass and stabbed and cut in her anxiety to help her husband. **Who acts:** gigantic bats, dragon, queen · **What happens:** set, have, break off, stab, cut, help · **To what, where:** sides, teeth, sharp bits, anxiety, husband This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gigantic bats, dragon, queen), 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:pg3027:29:30 # text = At the entrance gigantic bats, owls, and crows set upon him from all sides; but the dragon had teeth and claws, while the queen broke off sharp bits of glass and stabbed and cut in her anxiety to help her husband. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stabbed stab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 anxiety anxiety NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | gigantic bats and owls | | | all sides | | upon struggle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination | | 2 | **have** | past | the dragon | teeth and claws | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 3 | **break off** | past | the queen | sharp bits of glass | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Patient | | 4 | **stab** | participle | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cut** | participle | the dragon *not said here* | | | dragon's anxiety | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | | dragon's husband | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Beneficiary | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/)