--- title: Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, sa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, saw a flight of rough steps, and, at the bottom of them, the fakeer sitting, just as he used to sit, on his rickety bedstead, reading the Koran! Who acts: ground, astonished king, fakeer, King. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/36/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/) / 36 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 36 Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, saw a flight of rough steps, and, at the bottom of them, the fakeer sitting, just as he used to sit, on his rickety bedstead, reading the Koran! **Who acts:** ground, astonished king, fakeer, King · **What happens:** open, peep, see, sit, use, read · **To what, where:** flight, bottom, rickety bedstead, Koran This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, astonished king, fakeer, King), 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:pg3027:3:36 # text = Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, saw a flight of rough steps, and, at the bottom of them, the fakeer sitting, just as he used to sit, on his rickety bedstead, reading the Koran! 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 peeping peep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 in in ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fakeer fakeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 rickety rickety ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bedstead bedstead NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Koran Koran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the ground | | | | | instantly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **peep** | gerund | the astonished king *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | the astonished king | a flight of rough steps | | the bottom of steps | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flight=Stimulus | | 4 | **sit** | gerund | the fakeer *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **use** | past | King | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | King's rickety bedstead | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bedstead=Location | | 7 | **read** | gerund | King *not said here* | the Koran | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koran=Topic | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/37/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/)