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title: Miranda reached her father’s palace just as the wedding ceremony beg… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Miranda reached her father’s palace just as the wedding ceremony began, and everyone, as soon as she came in, was struck with surprise at her beauty and the splendor of her jewels. Who acts: Miranda, wedding ceremony. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, w
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 69

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Miranda reached her father’s palace just as the wedding ceremony began, and everyone, as soon as she came in, was struck with surprise at her beauty and the splendor of her jewels.

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**Who acts:** Miranda, wedding ceremony · **What happens:** reach, begin, come in, strike · **To what, where:** palace, everyone, beauty

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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, wedding ceremony), 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:pg503:31:69
# text = Miranda reached her father’s palace just as the wedding ceremony began, and everyone, as soon as she came in, was struck with surprise at her beauty and the splendor of her jewels.
1	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Miranda | Miranda's father's palace |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the wedding ceremony |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come in** | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past · passive |  | everyone |  | Miranda's beauty and the splendor of Miranda's jewels |  | with surprise | tree rules |

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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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