More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 101

Again she was lifted on the Bull's back, and after she had ridden far, and farther than I can tell, they came in sight of a far bonnier castle, and far farther away than the last.

Who acts: lady, I, daughters · What happens: lift, ride, tell, come, sight · To what, where: lady, back, sight, bonnier castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, I, daughters), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Again	again	ADV	_	4 lifted	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	aux:pass
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bull	det
7	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Bull	case
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ridden	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ridden	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 ridden	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ridden	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ridden	aux
15	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lifted	conj
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ridden	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 farther	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 farther	cc
19	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 ridden	xcomp
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 tell	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 farther	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 sight	case
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 castle	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 castle	det
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 bonnier	advmod
32	bonnier	bonnie	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 castle	amod
33	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sight	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 away	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 away	cc
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 farther	advmod
37	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 away	advmod
38	away	away	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
39	than	than	ADP	_	41 last	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 last	det
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 away	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past · passive		lady	the Bull's back	again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on back=Destination
2	ride	past · perfect	lady				far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	can	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	daughters = daughter		sight of a bonnier castle		away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
5	sight			a bonnier castle				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «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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