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title: At night, too, Cinderlad’s brothers came home again and had a long s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At night, too, Cinderlad’s brothers came home again and had a long story to tell about riding up the glass hill. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 66

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At night, too, Cinderlad’s brothers came home again and had a long story to tell about riding up the glass hill.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** come, have, tell, ride up · **To what, where:** long story, glass hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brothers), 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:pg503:48:66
# text = At night, too, Cinderlad’s brothers came home again and had a long story to tell about riding up the glass hill.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Cinderlad's brothers |  |  |  | again; night | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Cinderlad's brothers *not said here* | a long story |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Cinderlad's brothers *not said here* | a long story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ride up** | gerund | Cinderlad's brothers *not said here* | the glass hill |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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