--- title: You may imagine how miserable she was, and how she cried as she went… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You may imagine how miserable she was, and how she cried as she went on, not knowing which path to follow, and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces. Who acts: You, Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/70/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Wonderful Sheep, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/) / 70 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 70 You may imagine how miserable she was, and how she cried as she went on, not knowing which path to follow, and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces. **Who acts:** You, Miranda · **What happens:** imagine, be, cry, go on, not know, follow · **To what, where:** path, Miranda, pretty frock · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (You, Miranda), 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:pg503:30:70 # text = You may imagine how miserable she was, and how she cried as she went on, not knowing which path to follow, and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 on on ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 20 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 thorny thorny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 30 scratching scratch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 dreadfully dreadfully ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 tearing tear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 frock frock NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | may | You | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | past | Miranda | | | | | miserable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Miranda | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go on** | past | Miranda | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **know** | gerund | Miranda *not said here* | which path | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | | 6 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | which path *not said here* | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **scratch** | gerund | Miranda *not said here* | Miranda | | | | with the thorny bushes; dreadfully *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bush=Instrument | | 8 | **tear** | gerund | Miranda *not said here* | Miranda's pretty frock | | | | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent frock=Patient to piece=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/71/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/)