The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 78

Just as they were still looking for him, however, came a knight riding on a steed that was much, much finer than that which the knight in copper armor had ridden, and this knight had silver armor and a silver saddle and bridle, and all were so bright that they shone and glistened when he was a long way off.

Who acts: princes, knight, steed, all · What happens: look, come, ride, be, have, shine · To what, where: steed, knight, silver armor, long way

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 (princes, knight, steed, all), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 however	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knight	det
14	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
15	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 knight	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 steed	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 steed	det
18	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 riding	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 much	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 much	cop
21	much	much	ADV	_	18 steed	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 finer	punct
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 finer	advmod
24	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 riding	xcomp
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 finer	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 ridden	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 knight	det
29	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ridden	nsubj:pass
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 armor	case
31	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 armor	compound
32	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knight	nmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ridden	aux
34	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 finer	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 knight	det
38	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
40	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 armor	amod
41	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 saddle	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 saddle	det
44	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 saddle	amod
45	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 armor	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bridle	cc
47	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 saddle	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bright	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 bright	cc
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 bright	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bright	cop
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 bright	advmod
53	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	parataxis
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 shone	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 shone	nsubj
56	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bright	advcl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 glistened	cc
58	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 shone	conj
59	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	64 way	advmod
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 way	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 way	cop
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 way	det
63	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 way	amod
64	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 glistened	advcl
65	off	off	ADV	_	64 way	advmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	princes = prince			still	for King; however property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
2	come	past	a knight					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ride	gerund	a knight not said here		a steed		fine property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	a steed				much property	tree rules
5	ride	past · perfect · passive		the knight in copper armor				tree rules
6	have	past	this knight	silver armor and a silver saddle and bridle				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Patient
7	is	past	all				bright property	tree rules
8	shine	past	princes = prince					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	glisten	participle	princes = prince not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is a	past	knight	a long way			off property	tree rules

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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