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title: He rode one-third of the way up the glass hill, and he could easily… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode one-third of the way up the glass hill, and he could easily have ridden the whole of it if he had liked; but he had turned back, for he had made up his mind that that was enough for once. Who acts: knight, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hi
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 68

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He rode one-third of the way up the glass hill, and he could easily have ridden the whole of it if he had liked; but he had turned back, for he had made up his mind that that was enough for once.

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**Who acts:** knight, that · **What happens:** ride, like, turn back, make up, be, mind · **To what, where:** one third, glass hill, mind

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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, that), 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:pg503:48:68
# text = He rode one-third of the way up the glass hill, and he could easily have ridden the whole of it if he had liked; but he had turned back, for he had made up his mind that that was enough for once.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | knight | one third of the way |  | the glass hill |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent third=Theme up hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **ride** | could · perfect | knight |  |  |  |  | easily, whole *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **turn back** | past · perfect | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make up** | past · perfect | knight | knight's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | enough, once *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **mind** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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