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title: A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's _Arca… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's _Arcadia_, as also in the _Complaynt of Scotland_, 1548. Who acts: reference. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 8

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A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's \_Arcadia\_, as also in the \_Complaynt of Scotland\_, 1548.

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**Who acts:** reference · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** \_

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reference), 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:pg14241:39:8
# text = A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's _Arcadia_, as also in the _Complaynt of Scotland_, 1548.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Norroway	Norroway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Sidney	Sidney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Arcadia	Arcadia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Complaynt	Complaynt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	1548	1548	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | a reference to the Black Bull of Norroway |  |  | Sidney's \_ |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in \_=Location |

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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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