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title: By-and-by she became very thirsty, and seeing a cow with a milk-pail… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-by she became very thirsty, and seeing a cow with a milk-pail hanging on her horn, turned towards her. Who acts: clematis, milk pail, seeing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 39

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By-and-by she became very thirsty, and seeing a cow with a milk-pail hanging on her horn, turned towards her.

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**Who acts:** clematis, milk pail, seeing · **What happens:** become, see, hang, turn · **To what, where:** cow, horn

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clematis, milk pail, seeing), 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:pg3027:10:39
# text = By-and-by she became very thirsty, and seeing a cow with a milk-pail hanging on her horn, turned towards her.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | clematis |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | a cow |  |  |  | with a milk pail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | a milk pail *not said here* |  |  | clematis's horn |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horn=Location |
| 4 | **turn** | past | seeing |  |  |  |  | towards clematis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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