The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 46

Upon the very top of this the King’s daughter was to sit with three gold apples in her lap, and the man who could ride up and take the three golden apples should marry her, and have half the kingdom.

Who acts: daughter, man, three golden apples · What happens: be, ride up, take, marry, have · To what, where: John, kingdom

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 (daughter, man, three golden apples), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 top	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 top	advmod
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 top	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 apples	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 apples	nummod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apples	compound
17	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sit	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 lap	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lap	nmod:poss
20	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apples	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ride	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ride	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ride	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 ride	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ride	aux
27	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sit	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 ride	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ride	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 apples	det
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 apples	nummod
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 apples	amod
34	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 marry	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 marry	aux
36	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 take	ccomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 marry	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 have	cc
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	parataxis
41	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	43 kingdom	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 kingdom	det
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King's daughter		upon the top of this; with three gold apples in John's lap; sit property	tree rules
2	ride up	could	the man			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	take	infinitive	the man not said here			vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	marry	should	the three golden apples	John		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	have	present		half kingdom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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