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title: The other knights all called out to him that he might just as well s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other knights all called out to him that he might just as well spare himself the trouble of trying to ride up the glass hill, for it was of no use to try; but he did not heed them, and rode straight off to it, and went up as if it were nothing at all. Who acts: knight, trouble, hill. A sentence 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 58

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The other knights all called out to him that he might just as well spare himself the trouble of trying to ride up the glass hill, for it was of no use to try; but he did not heed them, and rode straight off to it, and went up as if it were nothing at all.

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**Who acts:** knight, trouble, hill · **What happens:** call out, spare, try, ride up, be, not heed · **To what, where:** other knights, King, knight, glass hill, accoutrements, 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 (knight, trouble, hill), 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:pg503:48:58
# text = The other knights all called out to him that he might just as well spare himself the trouble of trying to ride up the glass hill, for it was of no use to try; but he did not heed them, and rode straight off to it, and went up as if it were nothing at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
46	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	off	off	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	obl	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the other knights | King |  |  | all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **spare** | might | knight | knight |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient trouble=Asset |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | the trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ride up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the trouble *not said here* | the glass hill |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | hill |  |  |  |  | for no use | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **heed** | past · do-support | knight | accoutrements *= accoutrement* |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **ride** | past |  |  |  | hill |  | off *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=Trajectory |
| 9 | **go up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 10 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | hill |  |  | all |  | as nothing | 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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