The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 82

At night the two brothers went home as they had done the night before, and told how things had gone, and how everyone had ridden, but no one had been able to get up the hill.

Who acts: two brothers, apples, things, everyone, one · What happens: go, do, tell, ride, be, get up · To what, where: 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 (two brothers, apples, things, everyone), 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	6 went	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl:unmarked
14	before	before	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 gone	advmod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ridden	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ridden	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 ridden	advmod
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 ridden	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ridden	aux
27	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 gone	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 able	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 able	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 get	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hill	det
39	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the two brothers		night	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	apples = apple		night	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the two brothers not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past · perfect	things				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ride	past · perfect	everyone				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	no one			able property	tree rules
7	get up	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the hill			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus

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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