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title: The King of the country in which Cinderlad’s father dwelt had a daug… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King of the country in which Cinderlad’s father dwelt had a daughter whom he would give to no one who could not ride up to the top of the glass hill, for there was a high, high hill of glass, slippery as ice, and it was close to the King’s palace. Who acts: father, King, one, grass. A sentence o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 45

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The King of the country in which Cinderlad’s father dwelt had a daughter whom he would give to no one who could not ride up to the top of the glass hill, for there was a high, high hill of glass, slippery as ice, and it was close to the King’s palace.

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**Who acts:** father, King, one, grass · **What happens:** dwell, have, give, not ride up, be · **To what, where:** country, daughter, one, top, high high hill

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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 (father, King, one, grass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:48:45
# text = The King of the country in which Cinderlad’s father dwelt had a daughter whom he would give to no one who could not ride up to the top of the glass hill, for there was a high, high hill of glass, slippery as ice, and it was close to the King’s palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | Cinderlad's father |  |  | the country |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | the King of the country | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | would | father | a daughter | no one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **ride up** | could | no one |  |  | the top of the glass hill |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to top=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a high high hill |  |  |  | of glass | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | grass |  |  |  |  | to the King's palace; close *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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