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title: To wilder measures next they turn “The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To wilder measures next they turn “The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!” Who acts: measures. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 2

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To wilder measures next they turn “The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!”

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**Who acts:** measures · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** Black

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (measures), 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:pg503:55:2
# text = To wilder measures next they turn “The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!”
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	next	next	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Norroway	Norroway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | measures *= measure* | the Black |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme black=Result |

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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:** «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.

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