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title: The knight had golden armor, and the horse a golden saddle and bridl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 92

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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.

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

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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 (knight, horse, these, 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:pg503:48:92
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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