The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 55

And an instant afterward Miranda saw them coming toward her, and their presence gave her the greatest pleasure, though they did not come near enough for her to touch them.

Who acts: instant, Sheep, presence · What happens: see, come, give, not come, touch · To what, where: Sheep, greatest pleasure, instant

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 (instant, Sheep, presence), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
4	afterward	afterward	ADP	_	5 Miranda	case
5	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 instant	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	xcomp
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 coming	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 presence	nmod:poss
14	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pleasure	det
18	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 pleasure	amod
19	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 gave	conj
26	near	near	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 near	advmod
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 touch	mark
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touch	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 touch	mark
31	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	a instant afterward Miranda	Sheep			tree rules
2	come	gerund	Sheep not said here			toward instant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward she=Initial_Location
3	give	past	Sheep's presence	the greatest pleasure	instant		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pleasure=Theme
4	not come	past · do-support	Sheep			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	touch	to-infinitive	presence	Sheep			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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