The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 35

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

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.

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	_	7 bull	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ’s	obl
8	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 ’s	advmod
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 farer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 farer	cc
19	farer	farer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ridden	obl
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 farer	acl
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	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	34 castle	case
30	’	'	DET	PronType=Tot	34 castle	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 castle	det
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 bonnier	advmod
33	bonnier	bonnie	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 castle	amod
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sight	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 awa	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 awa	cc
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 farther	advmod
38	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 awa	amod
39	awa	awa	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 awa	punct
41	than	than	ADP	_	43 last	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 last	det
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 awa	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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