The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 72

“No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl.

Who acts: shepherds, Miranda · What happens: be, show, live, disguise · To what, where: way, Miranda

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherds, Miranda), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 doubt	det
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 are	dislocated
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 show	advcl
6	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 are	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 flocks	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 flocks	nmod:poss
10	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 show	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 show	aux
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obl:unmarked
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 village	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 village	det
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 live	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 live	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 live	aux
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 village	acl:relcl
25	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 live	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 girl	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 girl	det
28	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 girl	amod
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 disguised	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	shepherds			here; there	with shepherds's flocks; no doubt dislocated	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show in a quote	future	shepherds = shepherd	the way	Miranda		to some village	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to village=Recipient
3	live in a quote	can	Miranda					tree rules
4	disguise in a quote	participle	Miranda not said here				as a peasant girl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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.

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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