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title: But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane, and soon the milk… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane, and soon the milk was flowing through the hut downhill towards their parents in the fields below. Who acts: Koane, milk. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 62

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But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane, and soon the milk was flowing through the hut downhill towards their parents in the fields below.

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**Who acts:** Koane, milk · **What happens:** not stop, flow · **To what, where:** Milk, hut

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koane, milk), 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:pg3282:15:62
# text = But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane, and soon the milk was flowing through the hut downhill towards their parents in the fields below.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Koane	Koane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
28	below	below	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | could | Koane | Milk |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flow** | past · progressive | the milk |  |  | the hut |  | towards father's parents; in the fields; downhill, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hut=Location |

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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 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.

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