The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 63
So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves before the King that night, so that he who had ridden so far up the glass hill might show the golden apple which the King’s daughter had thrown down.
Who acts: knight · What happens: bid, present, ride, show, throw down · To what, where: princes, golden apple, 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 (knight), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 bidden | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 princes | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knights | cc |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 princes | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bidden | aux:pass |
| 8 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 show | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 present | mark |
| 10 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bidden | xcomp |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 present | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 present | obl |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ridden | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 ridden | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ridden | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ridden | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ridden | aux |
| 23 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 bidden | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 far | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ridden | advmod |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 hill | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hill | det |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hill | compound |
| 29 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 far | obl |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 show | aux |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 apple | det |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 apple | amod |
| 34 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 show | obj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 thrown | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 King | case |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thrown | aux |
| 41 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 apple | acl:relcl |
| 42 | down | down | ADP | _ | 41 thrown | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past · passive | all princes and knights | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | present | to-infinitive | princes = prince | before the King; night | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past · perfect | knight | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | might | the golden apple | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | throw down | past · perfect · passive | the King's daughter | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=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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