The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 92

The knight had golden armor, and the horse a golden saddle and bridle, and these were all so bright that they shone and dazzled everyone, even while the knight was still at a great distance.

Who acts: knight, horse, these, saddle · What happens: have, saddle, be, shine, dazzle · To what, where: golden armor, everyone

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 (knight, horse, these, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 armor	amod
5	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saddle	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saddle	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saddle	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 saddle	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saddle	amod
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bridle	cc
14	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saddle	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bright	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bright	cc
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 bright	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bright	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 bright	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 bright	advmod
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 shone	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shone	nsubj
24	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bright	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dazzled	cc
26	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shone	conj
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 dazzled	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 distance	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	38 distance	advmod
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 distance	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 knight	det
32	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 distance	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 distance	cop
34	still	still	ADV	_	38 distance	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 distance	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 distance	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 distance	amod
38	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 everyone	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the knight	golden armor			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Patient
2	saddle		the horse				tree rules
3	is	past	these			all, bright property	tree rules
4	shine	past	saddle				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dazzle	past	saddle not said here	everyone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer
6	is	past	the knight		still	at a great distance	tree rules

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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