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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 78

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Just as they were still looking for him, however, came a knight riding on a steed that was much, much finer than that which the knight in copper armor had ridden, and this knight had silver armor and a silver saddle and bridle, and all were so bright that they shone and glistened when he was a long way off.

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**Who acts:** princes, knight, steed, all · **What happens:** look, come, ride, be, have, shine · **To what, where:** steed, knight, silver armor, long way

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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 (princes, knight, steed, all), 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:pg503:48:78
# text = Just as they were still looking for him, however, came a knight riding on a steed that was much, much finer than that which the knight in copper armor had ridden, and this knight had silver armor and a silver saddle and bridle, and all were so bright that they shone and glistened when he was a long way off.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
40	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	conj	_	_
59	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	64	advmod	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	advcl	_	_
65	off	off	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | still | for King; however *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | a knight *not said here* |  |  | a steed |  | fine *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | a steed |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ride** | past · perfect · passive |  | the knight in copper armor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | this knight | silver armor and a silver saddle and bridle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armor=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **shine** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **glisten** | participle | princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **is a** | past | knight | a long way |  |  |  | off *property* | 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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