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title: When Miranda heard it she begged the King of the Sheep to allow her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Miranda heard it she begged the King of the Sheep to allow her to go and see the wedding as before. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 80

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When Miranda heard it she begged the King of the Sheep to allow her to go and see the wedding as before.

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**Who acts:** Miranda · **What happens:** hear, beg, allow, go, see · **To what, where:** news, King, Miranda, wedding

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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), 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:pg503:31:80
# text = When Miranda heard it she begged the King of the Sheep to allow her to go and see the wedding as before.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Miranda | news |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Miranda |  | the King of the Sheep |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* |  | Miranda |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | Miranda *not said here* | the wedding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus as before=Attribute |

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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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