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title: Now, if she had not been so alarmed by everything that had happened,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if she had not been so alarmed by everything that had happened, nothing could have induced her to go into this frightful cave, but she was so afraid of what might be behind her that she would have thrown herself even down a well at this moment. Who acts: sheep. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Boo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 93

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Now, if she had not been so alarmed by everything that had happened, nothing could have induced her to go into this frightful cave, but she was so afraid of what might be behind her that she would have thrown herself even down a well at this moment.

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**Who acts:** sheep · **What happens:** not alarm, happen, induce, go, be, throw · **To what, where:** sheep, nothing, frightful cave

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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 (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:pg503:30:93
# text = Now, if she had not been so alarmed by everything that had happened, nothing could have induced her to go into this frightful cave, but she was so afraid of what might be behind her that she would have thrown herself even down a well at this moment.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	induced	induce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
37	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux	_	_
43	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
44	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	even	even	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **alarm** | past · perfect · passive |  | sheep |  |  |  | by everything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **induce** | could · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this frightful cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | sheep |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | behind Miranda | tree rules |
| 7 | **throw** | would · perfect · passive |  | sheep |  |  | moment |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination herself=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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