The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 56

But when evening after evening the goat remained almost dry she determined to find out who the thief was.

Who acts: goat, widow, thief · What happens: remain, determine, find out, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (goat, widow, thief), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 determined	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 remained	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remained	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goat	det
7	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remained	nsubj
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 determined	advcl
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 dry	advmod
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 remained	xcomp
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 determined	nsubj
12	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 determined	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 find	compound:prt
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	14 find	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thief	det
18	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 who	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 who	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the goat	evening	dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	determine	past	widow			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find out	to-infinitive	widow not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the thief			tree rules

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.

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