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title: Again she was lifted on the bull’s back, and after she had ridden fa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Again she was lifted on the bull’s back, and after she had ridden far, and farer than I can tell, they came in sight o’ a far bonnier castle, and far farther awa’ than the last. Who acts: wad, I, sae. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 35

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Again she was lifted on the bull’s back, and after she had ridden far, and farer than I can tell, they came in sight o’ a far bonnier castle, and far farther awa’ than the last.

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**Who acts:** wad, I, sae · **What happens:** lift, ride, tell, come, sight · **To what, where:** wad, farer, farther awa, sight, bonnier castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wad, I, sae), 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:pg503:55:35
# text = Again she was lifted on the bull’s back, and after she had ridden far, and farer than I can tell, they came in sight o’ a far bonnier castle, and far farther awa’ than the last.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	farer	farer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	bonnier	bonnie	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past · passive |  | wad |  |  | again |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | past · perfect | wad | farer |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I | farer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farer=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | past | sae | farther awa than the last |  | sight of ' bonnier castle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | ' bonnier 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:** «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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