The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 58

The other knights all called out to him that he might just as well spare himself the trouble of trying to ride up the glass hill, for it was of no use to try; but he did not heed them, and rode straight off to it, and went up as if it were nothing at all.

Who acts: knight, trouble, hill · What happens: call out, spare, try, ride up, be, not heed · To what, where: other knights, King, knight, glass hill, accoutrements, 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 (knight, trouble, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knights	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knights	amod
3	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	nsubj:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 spare	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spare	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 spare	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 spare	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 spare	cc
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 as	fixed
15	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	advcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 spare	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trouble	det
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spare	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 trying	mark
20	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 trouble	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ride	mark
22	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 ride	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hill	det
25	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hill	compound
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ride	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 use	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	33 use	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 use	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 use	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 use	case
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 use	det
33	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 try	mark
35	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 use	acl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 heed	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 heed	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heed	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 heed	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 heed	advmod
41	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	advcl
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heed	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rode	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 rode	cc
45	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	parataxis
46	straight	straight	ADV	_	47 off	advmod
47	off	off	ADV	_	45 rode	advmod
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 rode	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 went	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 went	cc
52	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 rode	conj
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 went	compound:prt
54	as	as	ADP	_	58 nothing	case
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 nothing	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 nothing	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 nothing	cop
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 went	obl
59	at	at	ADP	_	60 all	case
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 nothing	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		the other knights	King		all property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient
2	spare	might	knight	knight				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient trouble=Asset
3	try	gerund	the trouble not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	ride up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the trouble not said here	the glass hill				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
5	is	past	hill				for no use	tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	not heed	past · do-support	knight	accoutrements = accoutrement				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	ride	past				hill	off property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=Trajectory
9	go up	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	is a condition, not said to happen	past	hill			all	as nothing	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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