The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 55
But they were all eager to win the King’s daughter and half the kingdom, so they rode and they slipped, and thus it went on.
Who acts: princes, hill · What happens: be, win, ride, slip, go on · To what, where: daughter
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 (princes, hill), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 eager | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eager | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eager | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 eager | advmod |
| 5 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eager | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kingdom | cc |
| 13 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 15 kingdom | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 rode | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eager | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slipped | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slipped | nsubj |
| 22 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rode | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rode | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princes = prince | all, eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | the King's daughter and half kingdom | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | princes = prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slip | past | princes = prince | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | go on | past | hill | thus property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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