The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 83

“But last of all,” they said, “came one in silver armor, and he had a silver bridle on his horse, and a silver saddle, and oh, but he could ride!

Who acts: apples, brother · What happens: say, come, have, ride · To what, where: one, silver armor, silver bridle · 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, brother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 last	cc
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 last	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 came	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 armor	case
15	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 armor	amod
16	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bridle	det
22	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bridle	amod
23	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 horse	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horse	nmod:poss
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bridle	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saddle	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saddle	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 saddle	det
30	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 saddle	amod
31	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ride	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ride	cc
34	oh	oh	INTJ	_	39 ride	discourse
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ride	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 ride	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ride	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 ride	aux
39	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	advcl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	apples = apple				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	past		one	silver armor		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	have in a quote	past	brother	a silver bridle		on brother's horse; a silver saddle obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient
4	ride in a quote	could	brother				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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