Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 40

But so far away was it that at night it seemed no nearer, and they scarcely reached it on the third day.

Who acts: it, nephew · What happens: be, seem, reach · To what, where: it, castle

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, nephew), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 seemed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 far	advmod
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	6 it	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj:outer
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 seemed	mark
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 nearer	det
13	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 seemed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reached	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	18 reached	advmod
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seemed	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		it		away property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it		night	near property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past	nephew	castle	day	scarcely property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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