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title: “My miserable sheep’s face displeases her, and without Miranda what… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My miserable sheep’s face displeases her, and without Miranda what is left to me, wretched creature that I am! Who acts: face. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 16

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“My miserable sheep’s face displeases her, and without Miranda what is left to me, wretched creature that I am!

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** displease, leave · **To what, where:** sister, wretched creature, anxiety

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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:pg503:32:16
# text = “My miserable sheep’s face displeases her, and without Miranda what is left to me, wretched creature that I am!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	displeases	displease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **displease** *in a quote* | present | My miserable sheep's face | sister |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | wretched creature | anxiety |  |  | without Miranda | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient |

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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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