The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 57

He lost no time in opening it, but what was his horror when he found that it contained a man’s hand, which was holding a portrait.

Who acts: prince, time, light, hand · What happens: lose, open, be, find, contain, hold · To what, where: light, horror, hand, portrait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, time, light, hand), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 opening	mark
6	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 opening	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 horror	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 horror	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 horror	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 horror	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horror	nmod:poss
13	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 found	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 horror	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 contained	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hand	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contained	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holding	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 holding	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 holding	aux
27	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hand	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 portrait	det
29	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 holding	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	lose	past	prince		time	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	gerund	no time not said here	light		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	is a	past		prince's horror		tree rules
4	find	past	prince			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	contain	past	light	a man's hand		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme
6	hold	past · progressive	a man's hand	a portrait		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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