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title: It was so big, and fat, and fine a horse that Cinderlad had never se… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blu
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 20

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:48:20
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
54	again	again	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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