The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 69

The word ‘wolf’ was hardly out of his mouth than the white horse was off like the wind, so that in the twinkling of an eye it had reached the shed, dragging the hay-stack behind it.

Who acts: word · What happens: be, reach, drag · To what, where: mouth, many, twinkling, hay stack

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (word), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	nsubj
3	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mouth	cop
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	11 mouth	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mouth	cop
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 was	compound:prt
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 wind	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wind	det
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reached	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 reached	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 reached	mark
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 twinkling	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 twinkling	det
26	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reached	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 eye	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eye	det
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 twinkling	nmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reached	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reached	aux
32	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 was	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shed	det
34	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reached	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dragging	punct
36	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 reached	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stack	det
38	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stack	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 hay	punct
40	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dragging	obj
41	behind	behind	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dragging	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the word		prince's mouth	than the white horse; hardly property	tree rules
2	reach	past · perfect · passive		many	the twinkling of a eye		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary shed=Theme
3	drag	gerund		the hay stack	many		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stack=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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