The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 66
At night, too, Cinderlad’s brothers came home again and had a long story to tell about riding up the glass hill.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: come, have, tell, ride up · To what, where: long story, glass hill · 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 (brothers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 night | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 6 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cinderlad | case |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 story | acl |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 20 riding | mark |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tell | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 riding | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hill | det |
| 23 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hill | compound |
| 24 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 riding | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Cinderlad's brothers | again; night | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Cinderlad's brothers not said here | a long story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Cinderlad's brothers not said here | a long story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ride up | gerund | Cinderlad's brothers not said here | the glass hill | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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