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title: The Princess liked this knight still better than she had liked the o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess liked this knight still better than she had liked the other, and sat longing that he might be able to get up above, and when she saw him turning back she threw the second apple after him, and it rolled into his shoe, and as soon as he had got down the glass hill he rode away so fast tha
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 80

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The Princess liked this knight still better than she had liked the other, and sat longing that he might be able to get up above, and when she saw him turning back she threw the second apple after him, and it rolled into his shoe, and as soon as he had got down the glass hill he rode away so fast that no one could see what had become of him.

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**Who acts:** Princess, knight, armor, one · **What happens:** like, sit, long, be, get up, see · **To what, where:** knight, other, second apple, shoe, 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 (Princess, knight, armor, one), 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:pg503:48:80
# text = The Princess liked this knight still better than she had liked the other, and sat longing that he might be able to get up above, and when she saw him turning back she threw the second apple after him, and it rolled into his shoe, and as soon as he had got down the glass hill he rode away so fast that no one could see what had become of him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	above	above	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	csubj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	39	amod	_	_
39	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	_
57	down	down	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	away	away	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	so	so	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	62	advmod	_	_
66	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
67	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	68	det	_	_
68	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nsubj	_	_
69	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
70	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	advcl	_	_
71	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	73	nsubj	_	_
72	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	73	aux	_	_
73	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	70	ccomp	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | the Princess | this knight |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot knight=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | past · perfect | Princess | the other |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **long** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | might | knight |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get up** | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **see** | past | Princess | knight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 8 | **turn back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **throw** | past | Princess | the second apple |  |  | after knight |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 10 | **roll** | past | armor |  |  | knight's shoe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shoe=Destination |
| 11 | **get down** | past · perfect | knight | the glass hill |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **ride away** | past | knight | the glass hill *not said here* |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 13 | **see** | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 14 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of knight | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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