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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 106

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And long they rode, and hard they rode, till they came in sight of the far biggest castle and far farthest off, they had yet seen. "

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**Who acts:** long, daughters · **What happens:** ride, come, see, sight · **To what, where:** sight, far biggest castle

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long, daughters), 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:pg14241:16:106
# text = And long they rode, and hard they rode, till they came in sight of the far biggest castle and far farthest off, they had yet seen. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	acl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | long |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | sight of the far biggest castle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the far biggest castle |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:** «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.

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