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title: As soon as it felt itself free, the laden goat trotted off as quickl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it felt itself free, the laden goat trotted off as quickly as it could, and to this day nobody knows what became of it. Who acts: blessing, nobody. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 57

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As soon as it felt itself free, the laden goat trotted off as quickly as it could, and to this day nobody knows what became of it.

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**Who acts:** blessing, nobody · **What happens:** feel, trot off, know, become · **To what, where:** blessing, laden goat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, nobody), 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:pg7277:26:57
# text = As soon as it felt itself free, the laden goat trotted off as quickly as it could, and to this day nobody knows what became of it.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	laden	laden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	trotted	trot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | blessing | blessing |  |  |  | free, soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **trot off** | participle |  | the laden goat *not said here* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | nobody |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of blessing | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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