The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 102

They all went in turn, first princes, and then knights, but none of them had a golden apple.

Who acts: apples, none · What happens: go, have · To what, where: knights, turn, golden apple

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 (apples, none), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 turn	case
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 princes	punct
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 princes	advmod
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knights	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knights	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 knights	advmod
12	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 had	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 none	nmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 apple	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 apple	amod
21	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	apples = apple	knights		turn and princes			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in turn=Location
2	have	past	none	a golden apple					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

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 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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