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title: “Oh! no,” said Miranda; “only I am not used to living with sprites a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! no,” said Miranda; “only I am not used to living with sprites and with sheep that talk, and everything here frightens me. Who acts: Miranda, sheep, everything. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 10

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“Oh! no,” said Miranda; “only I am not used to living with sprites and with sheep that talk, and everything here frightens me.

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**Who acts:** Miranda, sheep, everything · **What happens:** say, not use, live, talk, frighten · **To what, where:** Miranda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, sheep, everything), 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:pg503:31:10
# text = “Oh! no,” said Miranda; “only I am not used to living with sprites and with sheep that talk, and everything here frightens me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sprites	sprite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	frightens	frighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **use** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Miranda |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with sprites and sheep | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sprite=Location |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **frighten** *in a quote* | present | everything | Miranda |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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