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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 55

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And an instant afterward Miranda saw them coming toward her, and their presence gave her the greatest pleasure, though they did not come near enough for her to touch them.

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**Who acts:** instant, Sheep, presence · **What happens:** see, come, give, not come, touch · **To what, where:** Sheep, greatest pleasure, instant

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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 (instant, Sheep, presence), 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:pg503:31:55
# text = And an instant afterward Miranda saw them coming toward her, and their presence gave her the greatest pleasure, though they did not come near enough for her to touch them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	afterward	afterward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	near	near	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a instant afterward Miranda | Sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | Sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward instant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | Sheep's presence | the greatest pleasure | instant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pleasure=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | Sheep |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **touch** | to-infinitive | presence | Sheep |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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