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title: So, without hesitation, she followed the Sheep, who went before her,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, without hesitation, she followed the Sheep, who went before her, down, down, down, until she thought they must come out at the other side of the world--indeed, she was not sure that he wasn’t leading her into Fairyland. Who acts: sheep, Princesses, king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by An
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 94

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So, without hesitation, she followed the Sheep, who went before her, down, down, down, until she thought they must come out at the other side of the world--indeed, she was not sure that he wasn’t leading her into Fairyland.

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**Who acts:** sheep, Princesses, king · **What happens:** follow, go, think, come out, not be, not lead · **To what, where:** Sheep, other side, Fairyland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Princesses, king), 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:pg503:30:94
# text = So, without hesitation, she followed the Sheep, who went before her, down, down, down, until she thought they must come out at the other side of the world--indeed, she was not sure that he wasn’t leading her into Fairyland.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Fairyland	Fairyland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | sheep | the Sheep |  |  |  | without hesitation | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Sheep |  |  |  | before sheep | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come out** | must | Princesses *= princess* |  |  | the other side of the world |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | sheep |  |  |  |  | indeed, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **lead** | past · progressive | king | sheep |  | Fairyland |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into fairyland=Destination |

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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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