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title: Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for he… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself. Who acts: Mother Goat, household. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 1

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Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself.

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**Who acts:** Mother Goat, household · **What happens:** go, get, consist · **To what, where:** market, provisions

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother Goat, household), 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:pg19994:137:1
# text = Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Mother Goat | market |  |  | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Mother Goat *not said here* | provisions |  |  |  | for Goat's household | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent provision=Theme for household=Source |
| 3 | **consist** | past | Goat's household |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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