The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 82

Saphir flew straight to the stable, and already had his hand on the finest horse it contained, when his eye was caught by a suit of magnificent harness hanging up close by.

Who acts: Saphir, hand, magnificent harness · What happens: fly, have, contain, catch, hang up · To what, where: hand, finest horse, eye

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Saphir, hand, magnificent harness), 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	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 stable	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stable	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stable	det
6	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 horse	amod
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 contained	nsubj
18	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 horse	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 caught	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eye	nmod:poss
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	aux:pass
24	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 suit	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 suit	det
27	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 harness	case
29	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 harness	amod
30	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 suit	nmod
31	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 harness	acl
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 hanging	advmod
33	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 hanging	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	33 close	fixed
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Saphir		to the stable result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result
2	have	past	Saphir not said here	Saphir's hand	on the finest horse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	contain	past	hand	the finest horse not said here		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
4	catch	past · passive		Saphir's eye	by a suit of magnificent harness	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	hang up	gerund	magnificent harness not said here		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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