The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 90

A horse stood before him--a horse whose equal in beauty the world had never seen; with a saddle on him of gold and precious stones, and with such a dazzling bridle you hardly dared to look at it, lest you should lose your sight.

Who acts: horse, world, you, your · What happens: stand, not see, dare, look, lose, sight · To what, where: beauty, sight

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (horse, world, you, your), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	obl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 equal	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 equal	nsubj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 equal	nmod:poss
10	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 beauty	case
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 equal	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	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	12 beauty	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 saddle	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 saddle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 saddle	det
21	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saddle	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saddle	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stones	cc
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stones	amod
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saddle	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dared	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dared	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 bridle	case
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 bridle	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bridle	det
34	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bridle	compound
35	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dared	obl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 dared	nsubj
37	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	38 dared	advmod
38	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 look	mark
40	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 dared	xcomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 look	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lose	punct
44	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	47 lose	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 lose	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 lose	aux
47	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 dared	conj
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 sight	nmod:poss
49	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lose	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a horse		before rein	with a saddle on rein of gold and precious stones	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	not see	past · perfect	the world	beauty not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
3	dare	past	you			with such dazzling bridle; hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	you not said here			at world	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	lose	should	you	your sight			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
6	sight		your				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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