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title: “No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks; they will show… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl. Who acts: shepherds, Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 72

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“No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl.

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**Who acts:** shepherds, Miranda · **What happens:** be, show, live, disguise · **To what, where:** way, Miranda

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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 (shepherds, Miranda), 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:pg503:30:72
# text = “No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	dislocated	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | shepherds |  |  | here; there |  | with shepherds's flocks; no doubt *dislocated* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | future | shepherds *= shepherd* | the way | Miranda |  |  | to some village | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to village=Recipient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | can | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disguise** *in a quote* | participle | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a peasant girl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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.

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