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title: But—but—it was the sheep, which, be—before my very eyes, were carrie… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But—but—it was the sheep, which, be—before my very eyes, were carried straight up—up into the air. Who acts: noise, sheep. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 99

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But—but—it was the sheep, which, be—before my very eyes, were carried straight up—up into the air.

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**Who acts:** noise, sheep · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** sheep, air

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, sheep), 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:pg2435:26:99
# text = But—but—it was the sheep, which, be—before my very eyes, were carried straight up—up into the air.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | noise | the sheep and my eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | the sheep and my eyes |  |  |  | before my eyes |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the sheep and my eyes |  | the air |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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