The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 20

It was so big, and fat, and fine a horse that Cinderlad had never seen one like it before, and a saddle and bridle lay upon it, and a complete suit of armor for a knight, and everything was of copper, and so bright that it shone again.

Who acts: door, horse, Cinderlad, saddle, everything · What happens: be, not see, lay, shine · To what, where: one, complete suit, door

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, horse, Cinderlad, saddle), 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	4 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fat	cc
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fine	cc
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 big	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 seen	mark
14	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 fine	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 seen	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	before	before	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 saddle	det
25	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bridle	cc
27	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saddle	conj
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 suit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 suit	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 suit	det
34	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 suit	amod
35	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 armor	case
37	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 suit	nmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 knight	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 knight	det
40	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 suit	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 copper	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 copper	cc
43	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	46 copper	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 copper	cop
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 copper	case
46	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 bright	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bright	cc
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 bright	advmod
50	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 big	parataxis
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 shone	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 shone	nsubj
53	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 bright	advcl
54	again	again	ADV	_	53 shone	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	door				big property	tree rules
2	be		a horse					tree rules
3	not see	past · perfect	Cinderlad	one			like door; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	lay	present	a saddle and bridle	a complete suit of armor for a knight	door			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination
5	is	past	everything				of copper	tree rules
6	shine	past	door			again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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