The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 68

He rode one-third of the way up the glass hill, and he could easily have ridden the whole of it if he had liked; but he had turned back, for he had made up his mind that that was enough for once.

Who acts: knight, that · What happens: ride, like, turn back, make up, be, mind · To what, where: one third, glass hill, mind

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, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 third	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 third	punct
5	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 third	nmod
9	up	up	ADP	_	12 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hill	compound
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ridden	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ridden	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ridden	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ridden	aux
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 ridden	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ridden	aux
19	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 rode	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 whole	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ridden	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 whole	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 liked	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 liked	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 liked	aux
27	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 ridden	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 turned	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turned	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 turned	aux
32	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 rode	parataxis
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 turned	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 made	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 made	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 made	aux
38	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 turned	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 made	compound:prt
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mind	nmod:poss
41	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 once	mark
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 once	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 once	cop
45	enough	enough	ADV	_	47 once	advmod
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 once	case
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 made	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	knight	one third of the way	the glass hill		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent third=Theme up hill=Trajectory
2	ride	could · perfect	knight			easily, whole property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	like a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	knight				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	turn back	past · perfect	knight				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	make up	past · perfect	knight	knight's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	is	past	that			enough, once property	tree rules
7	mind		knight				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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