The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 60

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 · What happens: follow, see, give, lay · To what, where: goat, cave, milk, little boy baby, sad remains

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 see	obj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 followed	conj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 giving	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 animal	det
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giving	nsubj
20	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 see	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 milk	nmod:poss
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giving	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	28 baby	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 baby	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 baby	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 baby	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
28	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giving	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ground	punct
30	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	33 ground	case
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 giving	obl
34	near	near	ADV	_	33 ground	advmod
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 lay	mark
36	lay	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 see	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 remains	det
38	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 remains	amod
39	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 lay	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	45 mother	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 baby	det
42	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mother	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 baby	case
44	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mother	amod
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 remains	nmod
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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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