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title: Time went by, and no cows in the whole country-side were so fat and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Time went by, and no cows in the whole country-side were so fat and well tended as hers, and no dairy had so much milk to show. Who acts: cows, dairy. 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 75

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Time went by, and no cows in the whole country-side were so fat and well tended as hers, and no dairy had so much milk to show.

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**Who acts:** cows, dairy · **What happens:** go by, be, tend, have, show · **To what, where:** much milk

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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 (cows, dairy), 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:pg3027:10:75
# text = Time went by, and no cows in the whole country-side were so fat and well tended as hers, and no dairy had so much milk to show.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | no cows in the whole country side |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | participle | no cows in the whole country side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as cow; well *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | no dairy | much milk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | no dairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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