The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 67

At first, they said, there was not one who was able to get even so much as one step up, but then came a knight who had armor of copper, and a bridle of copper, and his armor and trappings were so bright that they shone to a great distance, and it was something like a sight to see him riding.

Who acts: apples, one, knight, armor · What happens: say, be, get up, come, have, shine · To what, where: much, knight, armor, something · 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 (apples, one, knight, armor), 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 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 able	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 able	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	even	even	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 step	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 step	nummod
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
22	up	up	ADP	_	15 get	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 came	advmod
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 knight	det
28	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knight	acl:relcl
31	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 copper	case
33	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 armor	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bridle	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bridle	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bridle	det
37	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 copper	case
39	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bridle	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 bright	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 bright	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 armor	nmod:poss
43	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bright	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 trappings	cc
45	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 armor	conj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 bright	cop
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 bright	advmod
48	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 came	conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 shone	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 shone	nsubj
51	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 bright	advcl
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 distance	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 distance	det
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 distance	amod
55	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shone	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 something	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 something	cc
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 something	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 something	cop
60	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 said	obl
61	like	like	ADP	_	63 sight	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 sight	det
63	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 something	nmod
64	to	to	PART	_	65 see	mark
65	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 something	acl
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 see	obj
67	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 see	xcomp
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	apples = apple				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	one			able property	tree rules
3	get up	to-infinitive	one not said here	much		as one step	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as step=Attribute
4	come	past	apples = apple not said here	a knight	then	a bridle of copper obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knight=Theme
5	have	past	a knight	armor of copper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Patient
6	is	past	knight's armor and trappings			bright property	tree rules
7	shine	past	apples = apple			to a great distance	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	past	armor	something		like a sight	tree rules
9	see	to-infinitive	apples = apple not said here	knight			tree rules
10	ride	gerund	knight not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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