--- title: A horse stood before him--a horse whose equal in beauty the world ha… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/90/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/) / 90 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:19:90 # text = 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. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN 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 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 35 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 dazzling dazzling NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 48 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/91/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/)