The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 50

When the day appointed by the King had come, there was such a host of knights and princes under the glass hill that they seemed to swarm, and everyone who could walk or even creep was there too, to see who won the King’s daughter.

Who acts: host, princes, everyone · What happens: appoint, come, be, seem, swarm, walk · To what, where: day, glass hill, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (host, princes, everyone), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl:unmarked
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 day	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appointed	obl
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	conj
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 host	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 host	det
15	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 knights	case
17	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 host	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 princes	cc
19	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knights	conj
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 hill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hill	det
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hill	compound
23	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knights	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seemed	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hill	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 swarm	mark
28	swarm	swarm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 there	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 there	cc
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 there	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 walk	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 walk	aux
34	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 everyone	acl:relcl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 creep	cc
36	even	even	ADV	_	37 creep	advmod
37	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 walk	conj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 there	cop
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 come	advmod
40	too	too	ADV	_	39 there	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 see	punct
42	to	to	PART	_	43 see	mark
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	advcl
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 won	nsubj
45	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 see	ccomp
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 King	det
47	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 daughter	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 King	case
49	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 won	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appoint	participle		the day not said here			by the King	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · perfect				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	such host of knights under the glass hill and princes		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	princes = prince	the glass hill				tree rules
5	swarm	to-infinitive	princes = prince not said here					vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
6	walk	could						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	creep	infinitive						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	everyone				there property	tree rules
9	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	win	past		the King's daughter				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality

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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