The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 11

He had never imagined that any horse could become so big and overgrown, for the dappled horse had to lie down on all fours before the youth could get on his back, and it was very hard to do that even when it was lying down, and it was so plump that its coat shone and glistened just as if it had been a looking-glass.

Who acts: youth, horse, dappled horse, coat · What happens: not imagine, become, have, lie down, get, be · To what, where: fours, back, that, coat, looking glass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, horse, dappled horse, coat), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 imagined	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 imagined	advmod
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 become	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 become	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 imagined	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 overgrown	cc
13	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 big	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
17	dappled	dappled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 horse	amod
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 big	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lie	mark
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 lie	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 fours	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 fours	det
25	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lie	obl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youth	det
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lie	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hard	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hard	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hard	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 hard	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 hard	advmod
39	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 big	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hard	csubj
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 do	obj
43	even	even	ADV	_	47 lying	advmod
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 lying	advmod
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lying	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 lying	aux
47	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 do	advcl
48	down	down	ADV	_	47 lying	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 plump	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 plump	cc
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 plump	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 plump	cop
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 plump	advmod
54	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 imagined	conj
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 shone	mark
56	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 coat	nmod:poss
57	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 shone	nsubj:pass
58	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 plump	advcl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 glistened	cc
60	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 shone	conj
61	just	just	ADV	_	62 as	advmod
62	as	as	ADV	_	70 glass	advmod
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	70 glass	mark
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 glass	nsubj
65	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 glass	aux
66	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	70 glass	cop
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	70 glass	det
68	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	70 glass	compound
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 looking	punct
70	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 shone	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not imagine	past · perfect	youth				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	become	could	any horse			big property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	the dappled horse				tree rules
4	lie down	to-infinitive	the dappled horse not said here		all fours		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on four=Location
5	get	could	the youth		youth's back		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
6	is	past	any horse not said here			hard property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive		that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
8	lie down	past · progressive	horse			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	horse			plump property	tree rules
10	shine	participle · passive		horse's coat			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
11	glisten	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
13	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	coat	a looking glass			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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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