The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 60

But the Princess thought that she had never yet seen so handsome a knight, and while he was riding up she was sitting thinking, “Oh! how I hope he may be able to come up to the top!”

Who acts: Princess, knight, King · What happens: think, not see, ride up, sit, hope, be · To what, where: knight, top · 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 (Princess, knight, King), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 handsome	advmod
12	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seen	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knight	det
14	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 riding	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 riding	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 riding	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 riding	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 riding	aux
20	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 riding	compound:prt
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 riding	conj
25	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 sitting	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hope	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 hope	punct
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	32 hope	discourse
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Oh	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 hope	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hope	nsubj
32	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	parataxis
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 able	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 able	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hope	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 come	mark
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 top	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 top	det
42	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	obl
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 hope	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Princess					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not see	past · perfect	Princess	a knight		yet	handsome property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
3	ride up	past · progressive	knight					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past · progressive	Princess					tree rules
5	think speech: other	gerund						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hope in a quote	present	the King = king					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is in a quote	may	knight				able property	tree rules
8	come up in a quote	to-infinitive	knight not said here		the top			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location

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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