The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 45

The King of the country in which Cinderlad’s father dwelt had a daughter whom he would give to no one who could not ride up to the top of the glass hill, for there was a high, high hill of glass, slippery as ice, and it was close to the King’s palace.

Who acts: father, King, one, grass · What happens: dwell, have, give, not ride up, be · To what, where: country, daughter, one, top, high high hill

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 (father, King, one, grass), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 King	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dwelt	obl
8	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Cinderlad	case
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	nsubj
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 country	acl:relcl
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 give	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 daughter	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 one	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ride	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 ride	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 ride	advmod
25	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 one	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 ride	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ride	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 hill	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hill	det
32	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hill	compound
33	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 top	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hill	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hill	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hill	det
39	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hill	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 high	punct
41	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hill	amod
42	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 glass	case
44	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hill	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 slippery	punct
46	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hill	amod
47	as	as	ADP	_	48 ice	case
48	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 slippery	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 close	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 close	cc
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 close	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 close	cop
53	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	advcl
54	to	to	ADP	_	58 palace	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 King	det
56	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 palace	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 King	case
58	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 close	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	Cinderlad's father			the country		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
2	have	past	the King of the country	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	give	would	father	a daughter	no one			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to one=Recipient
4	not ride up	could	no one			the top of the glass hill		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to top=Trajectory
5	is a	past		a high high hill			of glass	tree rules
6	is	past	grass				to the King's palace; close property	tree rules

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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