The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 77

Miranda stopped short in amazement at this unexpected sight, and was looking in all directions for the shepherd of this surprising flock, when the beautiful sheep came bounding toward her.

Who acts: Miranda, beautiful sheep · What happens: stop, look, come, bound · To what, where: amazement

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 (Miranda, beautiful sheep), 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	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stopped	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 amazement	case
5	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 sight	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sight	det
8	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sight	amod
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looking	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 directions	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 directions	det
16	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 shepherd	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shepherd	det
19	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 directions	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 flock	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 flock	det
22	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flock	amod
23	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shepherd	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sheep	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sheep	amod
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	conj
30	bounding	bound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 came	advcl
31	toward	toward	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bounding	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Miranda	amazement	at this unexpected sight; short property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in amazement=Location
2	look	past · progressive			in all directions for the shepherd of this surprising flock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme
3	come	past	the beautiful sheep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bound	gerund	the beautiful sheep not said here		toward sheep	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=Trajectory

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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