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title: To-morrow there will come a great fat cow, as big as the house. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To-morrow there will come a great fat cow, as big as the house. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 31

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To-morrow there will come a great fat cow, as big as the house.

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**What happens:** come · **To what, where:** great fat cow

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3027:39:31
# text = To-morrow there will come a great fat cow, as big as the house.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future |  | a great fat cow |  | there |  | to morrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cow=Theme |

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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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