--- title: So there was a wedding, and Cinderlad got the King’s daughter, and e… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So there was a wedding, and Cinderlad got the King’s daughter, and everyone made merry at the wedding, for all of them could make merry, though they could not ride up the glass hill, and if they have not left off their merry-making they must be at it still. Who acts: wedding, Cinderlad, everyone, al --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/114/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/) / 114 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 114 So there was a wedding, and Cinderlad got the King’s daughter, and everyone made merry at the wedding, for all of them could make merry, though they could not ride up the glass hill, and if they have not left off their merry-making they must be at it still. **Who acts:** wedding, Cinderlad, everyone, all, apples · **What happens:** be, get, make, not ride up, not leave off · **To what, where:** daughter, wedding, glass hill, rags 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 (wedding, Cinderlad, everyone, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:48:114 # text = So there was a wedding, and Cinderlad got the King’s daughter, and everyone made merry at the wedding, for all of them could make merry, though they could not ride up the glass hill, and if they have not left off their merry-making they must be at it still. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Cinderlad Cinderlad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 29 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 47 off off ADP IN _ 51 mark _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 52 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 56 cop _ _ 55 at at ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 conj _ _ 57 still still ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a wedding | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | past | Cinderlad | the King's daughter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | past | everyone | | | the wedding | | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | could | all | | | | | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **not** **ride up** | could | apples *= apple* | the glass hill | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | | 6 | **not** **leave off** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | apples *= apple* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** | gerund | apples *= apple* | rags *= rag* | | | still | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 8 | **is** | must | apples *= apple* *not said here* | | | wedding | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/115/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)