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title: Upon the very top of this the King’s daughter was to sit with three… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the very top of this the King’s daughter was to sit with three gold apples in her lap, and the man who could ride up and take the three golden apples should marry her, and have half the kingdom. Who acts: daughter, man, three golden apples. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 46

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Upon the very top of this the King’s daughter was to sit with three gold apples in her lap, and the man who could ride up and take the three golden apples should marry her, and have half the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** daughter, man, three golden apples · **What happens:** be, ride up, take, marry, have · **To what, where:** John, kingdom

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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 (daughter, man, three golden apples), 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:pg503:48:46
# text = Upon the very top of this the King’s daughter was to sit with three gold apples in her lap, and the man who could ride up and take the three golden apples should marry her, and have half the kingdom.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
41	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	43	det:predet	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King's daughter |  |  |  |  | upon the top of this; with three gold apples in John's lap; sit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride up** | could | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **marry** | should | the three golden apples | John |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | half kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |

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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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