The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 13

Luckily this idea occurred to him when he was on horseback, for he would certainly have set out on foot rather than lose an instant.

Who acts: idea, Vivien · What happens: occur, be, set out, lose · To what, where: Vivien, horseback, foot, instant

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (idea, Vivien), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	4 occurred	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 idea	det
3	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occurred	nsubj
4	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 occurred	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 horseback	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 horseback	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 horseback	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 horseback	case
11	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occurred	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 set	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	18 set	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	aux
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 occurred	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 foot	case
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
22	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	24 lose	cc
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 rather	fixed
24	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 instant	det
26	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lose	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	occur	past	this idea		Vivien		luckily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Vivien			horseback		tree rules
3	set out	would · perfect · passive		Vivien		foot	certainly property	tree rules
4	lose	infinitive		a instant				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instant=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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