--- title: She made her living mostly by selling the milk of a flock of goats;… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She made her living mostly by selling the milk of a flock of goats; but she was very, very poor, and not very strong, and often used to wonder how she would live if she got too weak or ill to attend to her goats. Who acts: widow, anger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, anger), 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:pg3282:33:52 # text = She made her living mostly by selling the milk of a flock of goats; but she was very, very poor, and not very strong, and often used to wonder how she would live if she got too weak or ill to attend to her goats. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 5 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 wonder wonder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | widow | anger | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | anger *not said here* | | | | | mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sell** | gerund | anger *not said here* | the milk of a flock of goats | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | widow | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | participle | widow *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | widow *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **live** | would | widow | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | widow | | | | | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **attend** | to-infinitive | widow *not said here* | | | | | to widow's goats | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to goat=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/53/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)