--- title: Again she was lifted on the Bull's back, and after she had ridden fa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Again she was lifted on the Bull's back, and after she had ridden far, and farther than I can tell, they came in sight of a far bonnier castle, and far farther away than the last. Who acts: lady, I, daughters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, I, daughters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:16:101 # text = Again she was lifted on the Bull's back, and after she had ridden far, and farther than I can tell, they came in sight of a far bonnier castle, and far farther away than the last. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 farther far ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 20 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 bonnier bonnie ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past · passive | | lady | | the Bull's back | again | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on back=Destination | | 2 | **ride** | past · perfect | lady | | | | | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | daughters *= daughter* | | | sight of a bonnier castle | | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 5 | **sight** | | | a bonnier castle | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/102/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)