--- title: As soon as the goat felt itself free, it ran as quickly as it could,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the goat felt itself free, it ran as quickly as it could, and was very soon lost to sight, and, as far as I know, was never heard of again. Who acts: goat, back, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Biter Bit, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/) / 71 # The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 71 As soon as the goat felt itself free, it ran as quickly as it could, and was very soon lost to sight, and, as far as I know, was never heard of again. **Who acts:** goat, back, I · **What happens:** feel, run, lose, know, not hear · **To what, where:** back 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 (goat, back, I), 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:pg7277:26:71 # text = As soon as the goat felt itself free, it ran as quickly as it could, and was very soon lost to sight, and, as far as I know, was never heard of again. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | the goat | back | | | | free, soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | back | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | past · passive | the goat *not said here* | | | | | to sight; soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **hear** | past · passive | the goat *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/72/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/)