--- title: But the Princess thought that she had never yet seen so handsome a k… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the Princess thought that she had never yet seen so handsome a knight, and while he was riding up she was sitting thinking, “Oh! how I hope he may be able to come up to the top!” Who acts: Princess, knight, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/60/) [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/) / 60 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 60 But the Princess thought that she had never yet seen so handsome a knight, and while he was riding up she was sitting thinking, “Oh! how I hope he may be able to come up to the top!” **Who acts:** Princess, knight, King · **What happens:** think, not see, ride up, sit, hope, be · **To what, where:** knight, top · **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 (Princess, knight, King), 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:pg503:48:60 # text = But the Princess thought that she had never yet seen so handsome a knight, and while he was riding up she was sitting thinking, “Oh! how I hope he may be able to come up to the top!” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 yet yet ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 25 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 up up ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | Princess | a knight | | | yet | handsome *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | | 3 | **ride up** | past · progressive | knight | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | Princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | may | knight | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **come up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* | | | the top | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial\_Location | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/61/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)