The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 74

So the brothers went to the glass hill, and all the princes and knights began to ride again, and this time they had taken care to roughen the shoes of their horses; but that did not help them: they rode and they slipped as they had done the day before, and not one of them could get even so far as a yard up the hill.

Who acts: brothers, princes, that, one · What happens: go, begin, ride, take, roughen, not help · To what, where: glass hill, care, shoes, princes

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, princes, that, one), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hill	compound
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 princes	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princes	det
13	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 began	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knights	cc
15	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 princes	conj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ride	mark
18	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 ride	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taken	cc
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl:unmarked
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 began	conj
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 roughen	mark
29	roughen	roughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 taken	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shoes	det
31	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 roughen	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 horses	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 horses	nmod:poss
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shoes	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 help	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 help	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 help	nsubj
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 help	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 help	advmod
40	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	parataxis
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 help	obj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 rode	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 rode	nsubj
44	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 slipped	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 slipped	nsubj
47	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rode	conj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 done	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 done	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 done	aux
51	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 slipped	ccomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 day	det
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 done	obl:unmarked
54	before	before	ADV	_	51 done	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 get	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 get	cc
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 one	advmod
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 get	nsubj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 one	nmod
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 get	aux
62	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 rode	conj
63	even	even	ADV	_	65 far	advmod
64	so	so	ADV	_	65 far	advmod
65	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 get	advmod
66	as	as	ADP	_	68 yard	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 yard	det
68	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 far	obl
69	up	up	ADP	_	71 hill	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 hill	det
71	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 far	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the brothers		the glass hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	all princes and knights					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ride	to-infinitive	all princes and knights not said here			again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past · perfect	princes = prince	care		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	roughen	to-infinitive	princes = prince not said here	the shoes of princes's horses				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
6	not help	past · do-support	that	princes = prince				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
7	ride	past	princes = prince					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	slip	past	princes = prince					tree rules
9	do	past · perfect	princes = prince			day	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	get	could	one of princes				far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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