The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 94

He rode straight away to the glass hill, and galloped up it as if it were no hill at all, so that the Princess had not even time to wish that he might get up the whole way.

Who acts: knight, hill, Princess · What happens: ride, gallop up, be, have, wish, get up · To what, where: glass hill, hill, all, whole way · 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 (knight, hill, Princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
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	2 rode	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 galloped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 galloped	cc
11	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 galloped	compound:prt
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 galloped	obj
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 hill	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 as	fixed
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hill	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hill	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 galloped	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 hill	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 had	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 galloped	conj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 time	advmod
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 time	advmod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 wish	mark
32	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	acl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 get	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wish	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 get	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 way	amod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	knight		the glass hill		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hill=Trajectory
2	gallop up	past		hill				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past	hill		all		as no hill	tree rules
4	have	past	the Princess			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	wish	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get up	might	knight	the whole way				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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