--- title: The moment it was opened the beasts rushed in, and each seized on a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The moment it was opened the beasts rushed in, and each seized on a robber, killed him, and dragged the body down to the cellar. Who acts: moment. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/21/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 21 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 21 The moment it was opened the beasts rushed in, and each seized on a robber, killed him, and dragged the body down to the cellar. **Who acts:** moment · **What happens:** open, rush in, seize, kill, drag down · **To what, where:** door, each, robber, fox, body, cellar This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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:pg641:5:21 # text = The moment it was opened the beasts rushed in, and each seized on a robber, killed him, and dragged the body down to the cellar. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past · passive | the moment *not said here* | door | | | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme beast=Destination | | 2 | **rush in** | past | the moment | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seize** | participle · passive | | each | | a robber | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | past | the moment *not said here* | fox | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **drag down** | past | the moment *not said here* | the body | | the cellar | | down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to cellar=Destination | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/22/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)