--- title: “Do not be afraid,” said the Wonderful Sheep; “I entreat you to have… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Do not be afraid,” said the Wonderful Sheep; “I entreat you to have patience, and listen to the story of my misfortunes. Who acts: you, Wonderful Sheep, Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/12/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 12 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 12 “Do not be afraid,” said the Wonderful Sheep; “I entreat you to have patience, and listen to the story of my misfortunes. **Who acts:** you, Wonderful Sheep, Miranda · **What happens:** not be, say, entreat, have, listen · **To what, where:** you, patience · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Wonderful Sheep, 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:pg503:31:12 # text = “Do not be afraid,” said the Wonderful Sheep; “I entreat you to have patience, and listen to the story of my misfortunes. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 entreat entreat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 misfortunes misfortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wonderful Sheep | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **entreat** *in a quote* | infinitive | Miranda | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | patience | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | | 5 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | | | | | to the story of my misfortunes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/13/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)