--- title: At noon the earth began to quake, and opened in many places, and out… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At noon the earth began to quake, and opened in many places, and out of the openings appeared lions, tigers, and other wild beasts, which surrounded the castle, and thousands and thousands of beasts came out of the castle following their king, the Seven-headed Serpent. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, openings, thousands, castle), 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:pg640:12:77 # text = At noon the earth began to quake, and opened in many places, and out of the openings appeared lions, tigers, and other wild beasts, which surrounded the castle, and thousands and thousands of beasts came out of the castle following their king, the Seven-headed Serpent. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 quake quake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 openings opening NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 51 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 52 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 Serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the earth | | | | noon | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **quake** | to-infinitive | the earth *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **open** | past | | | | many places | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 4 | **appear** | past | the openings | lions and tigers | | | | other wild beasts *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme | | 5 | **surround** | participle · passive | | other wild beasts | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come out** | past | thousands and thousands of beasts | the castle | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient castle=Result | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | the castle *not said here* | thousands's king and the headed Serpent | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/78/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/)