--- title: They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with a river running through it, where a number of beautiful grey cows were standing by a gate waiting for a milk-maid to come and milk them. Who acts: sheep, number. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/) / 96 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 96 They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with a river running through it, where a number of beautiful grey cows were standing by a gate waiting for a milk-maid to come and milk them. **Who acts:** sheep, number · **What happens:** leave, enter, run, stand, wait, come · **To what, where:** sheep, large field, river This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:13:96 # text = They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with a river running through it, where a number of beautiful grey cows were standing by a gate waiting for a milk-maid to come and milk them. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | sheep | the sheep | | | | behind horns *= horn*; soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme behind they=Location | | 2 | **enter** | past | sheep *not said here* | a large field | | | | with a river | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination | | 3 | **run** | gerund | sheep *not said here* | | | river | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | | 4 | **stand** | past · progressive | a number of beautiful grey cows | | | | | by a gate | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | a number of beautiful grey cows *not said here* | | | | | for a milk maid | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | a number of beautiful grey cows *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/97/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/)