The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 93

The other princes and knights were not able even to call to tell him how useless it was to try to ascend the hill, so amazed were they at sight of his magnificence.

Who acts: other princes, armor, princes · What happens: not be, call, tell, be, try, ascend · To what, where: knight, hill, princes, sight, magnificence · 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 (other princes, armor, princes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 princes	amod
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 able	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 knights	cc
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 princes	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 able	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 able	advmod
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 call	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 call	mark
11	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 call	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 useless	advmod
16	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 useless	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 useless	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 try	mark
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 was	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ascend	mark
22	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hill	det
24	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ascend	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 amazed	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 amazed	advmod
27	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 able	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 they	cop
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 amazed	nsubj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 sight	case
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 they	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 magnificence	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 magnificence	nmod:poss
34	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sight	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the other princes and knights				able property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive	the other princes and knights not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the other princes and knights not said here		knight			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	armor				useless property	tree rules
5	try	to-infinitive	armor not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	ascend not said to happen	to-infinitive	armor not said here	the hill				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
7	be		princes = prince					tree rules
8	is a	past		princes = prince		sight of knight's magnificence		tree rules
9	sight			knight's magnificence				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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