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title: The old woman followed the goat into the cave and then, what should… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman followed the goat into the cave and then, what should she see but the animal giving her milk to a little boy-baby, whilst on the ground near by lay the sad remains of the baby’s dead mother! Who acts: old woman, widow, animal. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 60

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The old woman followed the goat into the cave and then, what should she see but the animal giving her milk to a little boy-baby, whilst on the ground near by lay the sad remains of the baby’s dead mother!

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**Who acts:** old woman, widow, animal · **What happens:** follow, see, give, lay · **To what, where:** goat, cave, milk, little boy baby, sad remains

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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, widow, animal), 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:pg3282:33:60
# text = The old woman followed the goat into the cave and then, what should she see but the animal giving her milk to a little boy-baby, whilst on the ground near by lay the sad remains of the baby’s dead mother!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
34	near	near	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the old woman | the goat |  | the cave |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into cave=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | should | widow |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the animal | widow's milk | a little boy baby |  |  | whilst the ground | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to baby=Recipient |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund | widow *not said here* | the sad remains of the baby's dead mother |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Result |

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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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