The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 58

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 · What happens: notice, goat, steal off, go · To what, where: length · 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 (old woman, this, particular nanny goat, widow), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 afternoon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 afternoon	det
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	nsubj
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 goat	nsubj
13	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goat	amod
14	nanny	nanny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goat	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 nanny	punct
16	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	ccomp
17	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 goat	acl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 stealing	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 herself	case
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 stealing	obl
21	away	away	ADV	_	17 stealing	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 herd	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 herd	det
24	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 away	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 went	obl
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	conj
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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

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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