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title: No sooner had they opened the door leading into the courtyard than t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had they opened the door leading into the courtyard than they were nearly upset by a huge monkey that came leaping straight to the doorway and escaped past them into the open fields. Who acts: pupils, door, huge monkey. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy B
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 16

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No sooner had they opened the door leading into the courtyard than they were nearly upset by a huge monkey that came leaping straight to the doorway and escaped past them into the open fields.

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**Who acts:** pupils, door, huge monkey · **What happens:** have, open, lead, upset, come, leap · **To what, where:** door, courtyard, pupils, doorway, open fields

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils, door, huge monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3454:5:16
# text = No sooner had they opened the door leading into the courtyard than they were nearly upset by a huge monkey that came leaping straight to the doorway and escaped past them into the open fields.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	upset	upset	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	past	past	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | pupils *= pupil* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the door *not said here* |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Destination |
| 4 | **upset** | past · passive | a huge monkey | pupils *= pupil* |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come** | past | a huge monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leap** | gerund | a huge monkey *not said here* | the doorway |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doorway=Trajectory |
| 7 | **escape** | past | a huge monkey *not said here* |  |  | the open fields |  | past pupils *= pupil* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme past they=Initial\_Location into field=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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