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title: In the morning the mother of Gudu's betrothed came out to milk her g… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning the mother of Gudu's betrothed came out to milk her goats, and on going to the bushes where the largest one seemed entangled, she found out the trick. Who acts: mother, largest one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 28

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In the morning the mother of Gudu's betrothed came out to milk her goats, and on going to the bushes where the largest one seemed entangled, she found out the trick.

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**Who acts:** mother, largest one · **What happens:** betroth, come out, go, seem, entangle, find out · **To what, where:** mother, milk, bushes, trick

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, largest one), 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:pg3027:4:28
# text = In the morning the mother of Gudu's betrothed came out to milk her goats, and on going to the bushes where the largest one seemed entangled, she found out the trick.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betroth** | participle |  | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come out** | past | the mother | milk |  |  | morning | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the largest one |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **entangle** | participle | the largest one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **find out** | past | mother | the trick |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic |

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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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