The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 58

But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as it was rushing at him with open jaws he threw the bit straight into its mouth, and the horse stood as quiet as a young lamb, and there was no difficulty at all in getting it home to the stable.

Who acts: youth, opportunity, horse, difficulty · What happens: watch, rush, throw, stand, be, get · To what, where: opportunity, bit, mouth, difficulty, all

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, opportunity, horse, difficulty), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 watched	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	nsubj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 watched	advmod
5	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 difficulty	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 opportunity	nmod:poss
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushing	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 rushing	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 rushing	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rushing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rushing	aux
14	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 watched	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rushing	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 jaws	case
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 jaws	amod
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rushing	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	nsubj
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 jaws	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bit	det
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obj
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	27 mouth	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stood	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 watched	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 quiet	advmod
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stood	xcomp
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 lamb	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lamb	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lamb	amod
38	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 was	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 was	cc
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 was	expl
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 difficulty	cop
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 difficulty	det
44	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 difficulty	nmod
47	in	in	SCONJ	_	48 getting	mark
48	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 difficulty	acl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 getting	obj
50	home	home	ADV	_	48 getting	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 stable	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 stable	det
53	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 getting	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 difficulty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the youth	youth's opportunity		carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
2	rush	past · progressive	opportunity			at youth; with open jaws	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
3	throw	past	youth	the bit		into opportunity's mouth result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bit=Theme into mouth=Result
4	stand	past	the horse			as a young lamb; quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		no difficulty	all		tree rules
6	get	gerund	no difficulty not said here	bit		to the stable; home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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