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title: Miranda was so surprised and confused by all that she had heard that… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Miranda was so surprised and confused by all that she had heard that she hardly knew what answer to give to the King of the Sheep, but she managed to make some kind of little speech, which certainly did not forbid him to hope, and said that she should not be afraid of the shadows now she knew that t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 51

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Miranda was so surprised and confused by all that she had heard that she hardly knew what answer to give to the King of the Sheep, but she managed to make some kind of little speech, which certainly did not forbid him to hope, and said that she should not be afraid of the shadows now she knew that they would some day come to life again.

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**Who acts:** Miranda, Sheep · **What happens:** be, hear, know, give, manage, make · **To what, where:** answer, King, kind, little speech, life · **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), 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:pg503:31:51
# text = Miranda was so surprised and confused by all that she had heard that she hardly knew what answer to give to the King of the Sheep, but she managed to make some kind of little speech, which certainly did not forbid him to hope, and said that she should not be afraid of the shadows now she knew that they would some day come to life again.
1	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
40	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
55	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	ccomp	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
59	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
60	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	ccomp	_	_
62	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
63	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
64	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
65	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	66	det	_	_
66	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl:unmarked	_	_
67	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	advcl	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
70	again	again	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | past | Miranda | what answer |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | what answer *not said here* | the King |  |  | of the Sheep | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 6 | **manage** | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | some kind of little speech |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |
| 8 | **not** **forbid** | past · do-support |  | little speech |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hope** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **not** **is** | should | Miranda |  |  |  | now | of the shadows; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **know** | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 13 | **come** | would | Sheep |  |  | life | again; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |

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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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