The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 10

“Oh! no,” said Miranda; “only I am not used to living with sprites and with sheep that talk, and everything here frightens me.

Who acts: Miranda, sheep, everything · What happens: say, not use, live, talk, frighten · To what, where: Miranda · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sheep, everything), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 used	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 used	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 used	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 used	advmod
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 living	mark
17	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 used	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 sprites	case
19	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 living	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sheep	cc
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 sheep	case
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sprites	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 talk	nsubj
24	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sheep	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 frightens	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 frightens	cc
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 frightens	nsubj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 everything	advmod
29	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 used	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 frightens	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Miranda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not use in a quote	present · passive		Miranda		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	live in a quote	gerund			with sprites and sheep	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sprite=Location
4	talk in a quote	present	sheep			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	frighten in a quote	present	everything	Miranda		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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