--- title: And thus they tore on and on, and a long time went by, and then yet… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And thus they tore on and on, and a long time went by, and then yet more time passed, and still they were above the sea, and the North Wind grew tired, and more tired, and at last so utterly weary that he was scarcely able to blow any longer, and he sank and sank, lower and lower, until at last he w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/109/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/) / 109 # The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 109 And thus they tore on and on, and a long time went by, and then yet more time passed, and still they were above the sea, and the North Wind grew tired, and more tired, and at last so utterly weary that he was scarcely able to blow any longer, and he sank and sank, lower and lower, until at last he went so low that the waves dashed against the heels of the poor girl he was carrying. **Who acts:** ships, long time, North Wind, Wind, waves · **What happens:** tore, go by, pass, be, grow, blow · **To what, where:** sea, last, heels, poor girl This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, long time, North Wind, Wind), 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:pg503:4:109 # text = And thus they tore on and on, and a long time went by, and then yet more time passed, and still they were above the sea, and the North Wind grew tired, and more tired, and at last so utterly weary that he was scarcely able to blow any longer, and he sank and sank, lower and lower, until at last he went so low that the waves dashed against the heels of the poor girl he was carrying. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 on on ADV RB _ 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 yet yet ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 above above ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 obl _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 48 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 advcl _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 xcomp _ _ 55 any any ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 54 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 59 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 64 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 62 xcomp _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 64 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 68 until until SCONJ IN _ 72 mark _ _ 69 at at ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 obl _ _ 71 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj _ _ 72 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 conj _ _ 73 so so ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 74 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 xcomp _ _ 75 that that SCONJ IN _ 78 mark _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 77 det _ _ 77 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 78 nsubj _ _ 78 dashed dash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 74 advcl _ _ 79 against against ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 80 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 78 obl _ _ 82 of of ADP IN _ 85 case _ _ 83 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 84 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 85 amod _ _ 85 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 nmod _ _ 86 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 88 nsubj _ _ 87 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 88 aux _ _ 88 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 85 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 89 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tore** | past | ships *= ship* | | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go by** | past | a long time | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | participle | | | | | time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | ships *= ship* | | | the sea | still | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | past | the North Wind | | | | | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | Wind | | | | | able, scarcely *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **blow** | to-infinitive | Wind *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **sink** | past | Wind | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **sink** | past | Wind *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **go** | past | Wind | | | last | | low *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 11 | **dash** | past | the waves | | | the heels of the poor girl | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against heel=Trajectory | | 12 | **carry** | past · progressive | Wind | the poor girl *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/110/) - ↑ back to [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/)