The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 83

It occurred to him directly that the harness belonged to the horse, and without ever thinking of harm (for indeed he who steals a horse can hardly be blamed for taking his saddle), he hastily placed it on the animal’s back.

Who acts: hand, harness, Saphir, thinking · What happens: occur, belong, think, steal, blame, take · To what, where: Saphir, horse, saddle, hand, back

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 (hand, harness, Saphir, thinking), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 occurred	nsubj
2	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 occurred	obl
5	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 occurred	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 belonged	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harness	det
8	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belonged	nsubj
9	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 occurred	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belonged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thinking	cc
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 thinking	mark
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 thinking	advmod
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 blamed	csubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 harm	case
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thinking	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 steals	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 indeed	case
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 steals	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 steals	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 steals	nsubj
25	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thinking	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steals	obj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 blamed	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 blamed	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 blamed	aux:pass
31	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 occurred	parataxis
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 taking	mark
33	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 blamed	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 saddle	nmod:poss
35	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taking	obj
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 blamed	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 placed	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 placed	nsubj
39	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	40 placed	advmod
40	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 occurred	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 placed	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	46 back	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 animal	det
44	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 back	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 animal	case
46	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	hand		Saphir			directly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	belong	past	the harness					to the horse	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund					ever	of harm	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	steal	present	Saphir	a horse				indeed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
5	blame	can · passive	thinking					hardly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»
6	take	gerund	thinking not said here	Saphir's saddle					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme
7	place	past	Saphir	hand		the animal's back		hastily property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=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 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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