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title: At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular n… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular nanny-goat stealing off by herself away from the herd and she at once went after her. Who acts: old woman, this, particular nanny goat, widow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Strong
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 58

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At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular nanny-goat stealing off by herself away from the herd and she at once went after her.

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**Who acts:** old woman, this, particular nanny goat, widow · **What happens:** notice, goat, steal off, go · **To what, where:** length · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, this, particular nanny goat, widow), 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:pg3282:33:58
# text = At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular nanny-goat stealing off by herself away from the herd and she at once went after her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	nanny	nanny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | the old woman |  |  | length and the afternoon |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **goat** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal off** | gerund | particular nanny goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by widow; away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by herself=Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | widow |  |  |  | after girl |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=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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