The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 46

No sooner had she opened it than with a shudder of horror she tried to throw it down, but found that some mysterious power compelled her to hold it against her will.

Who acts: Princess, mysterious power, horror · What happens: have, open, try, throw down, find, compel · To what, where: attention, horror, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, mysterious power, horror), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 shudder	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 shudder	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shudder	det
10	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 horror	case
12	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shudder	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 horror	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 throw	mark
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 throw	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 compelled	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 power	det
24	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 compelled	nsubj
26	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 compelled	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hold	mark
29	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 compelled	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hold	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 will	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 will	nmod:poss
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hold	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			soon property	tree rules
2	open	past	Princess	attention	than a shudder of horror	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	try	past	Princess	horror not said here		tree rules
4	throw down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	attention		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	find	past				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	compel	past	some mysterious power	Princess		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
7	hold	to-infinitive	some mysterious power not said here	attention		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	shudder		horror			nom shudder «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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