--- title: So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long way onward again, and after a very long time she came to a great mountain, where an aged woman was sitting, spinning at a golden spinning-wheel. Who acts: girl, aged woman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/75/) [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/) / 75 # The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 75 So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long way onward again, and after a very long time she came to a great mountain, where an aged woman was sitting, spinning at a golden spinning-wheel. **Who acts:** girl, aged woman · **What happens:** seat, ride, come, sit, spin · **To what, where:** girl, wearisome long way, great mountain, golden spinning wheel 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 (girl, aged woman), 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:pg503:4:75 # text = So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long way onward again, and after a very long time she came to a great mountain, where an aged woman was sitting, spinning at a golden spinning-wheel. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 wearisome wearisome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 onward onward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seat** | past | the girl | girl | | | | on the horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | | 2 | **ride** | past | | a wearisome long way | | | again | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | girl | | | a great mountain | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | a aged woman | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spin** | gerund | a aged woman *not said here* | | | a golden spinning wheel | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at wheel=Trajectory | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/76/) - ↑ back to [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/)