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title: So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves bef… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves before the King that night, so that he who had ridden so far up the glass hill might show the golden apple which the King’s daughter had thrown down. Who acts: knight. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 63

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So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves before the King that night, so that he who had ridden so far up the glass hill might show the golden apple which the King’s daughter had thrown down.

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**Who acts:** knight · **What happens:** bid, present, ride, show, throw down · **To what, where:** princes, golden apple, daughter

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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), 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:pg503:48:63
# text = So all the princes and knights were bidden to present themselves before the King that night, so that he who had ridden so far up the glass hill might show the golden apple which the King’s daughter had thrown down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	bidden	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | past · passive |  | all princes and knights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **present** | to-infinitive |  | princes *= prince* |  |  | before the King; night |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | past · perfect | knight |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | might |  | the golden apple |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient |
| 5 | **throw down** | past · perfect · passive |  | the King's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=Theme |

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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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