The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 51

Miranda was so surprised and confused by all that she had heard that she hardly knew what answer to give to the King of the Sheep, but she managed to make some kind of little speech, which certainly did not forbid him to hope, and said that she should not be afraid of the shadows now she knew that they would some day come to life again.

Who acts: Miranda, Sheep · What happens: be, hear, know, give, manage, make · To what, where: answer, King, kind, little speech, life · 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), 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	4 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 surprised	advmod
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 confused	cc
6	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprised	conj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 heard	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 heard	det:predet
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 heard	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 surprised	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 knew	advmod
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	ccomp
17	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answer	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 King	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Sheep	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sheep	det
26	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 managed	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 managed	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 managed	nsubj
30	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 managed	xcomp
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 kind	det
34	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 speech	case
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 speech	amod
37	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kind	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 forbid	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 forbid	obj
40	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	43 forbid	advmod
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forbid	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 forbid	advmod
43	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 speech	acl:relcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forbid	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 hope	mark
46	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 forbid	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 managed	parataxis
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 afraid	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 afraid	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 afraid	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 afraid	advmod
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 afraid	cop
55	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 said	ccomp
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 shadows	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 shadows	det
58	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 afraid	obl
59	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 afraid	advmod
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 knew	nsubj
61	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 afraid	ccomp
62	that	that	SCONJ	_	67 come	mark
63	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 come	nsubj
64	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 come	aux
65	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	66 day	det
66	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 come	obl:unmarked
67	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 knew	advcl
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 life	case
69	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 come	obl
70	again	again	ADV	_	67 come	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Miranda					surprised property	tree rules
2	be		Miranda not said here						tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	Miranda						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	past	Miranda	what answer				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
5	give	to-infinitive	Miranda not said here	what answer not said here	the King			of the Sheep	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
6	manage	past	Miranda						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	make	to-infinitive	Miranda not said here	some kind of little speech					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product
8	not forbid	past · do-support		little speech				certainly property	tree rules
9	hope	to-infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	not is	should	Miranda				now	of the shadows; afraid property	tree rules
12	know	past	Miranda						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	come	would	Sheep			life	again; day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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