The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 70

She heard exclamations of admiration on all sides; and the King her father looked at her so attentively that she was afraid he must recognize her; but he was so sure that she was dead that the idea never occurred to him.

Who acts: Miranda, King, idea · What happens: hear, look, be, recognize, not occur, exclaim · To what, where: exclamations, sides, Miranda, King, admiration

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, King, idea), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 admiration	case
5	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exclamations	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sides	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 King	nmod
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 attentively	advmod
19	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	23 afraid	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 afraid	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 afraid	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looked	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 recognize	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 recognize	aux
26	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 afraid	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 recognize	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sure	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 sure	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sure	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sure	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 sure	advmod
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 dead	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dead	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sure	ccomp
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 occurred	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 idea	det
40	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 occurred	nsubj
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 occurred	advmod
42	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	advcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 occurred	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Miranda	exclamations of admiration		all sides		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer exclamation=Stimulus
2	look	past	the King Miranda's father				at Miranda	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	is	past	Miranda				afraid, attentively property	tree rules
4	recognize	must	King	Miranda				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	is	past	King				sure property	tree rules
6	is	past	Miranda				dead property	tree rules
7	not occur	past	the idea		King			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	exclaim			admiration				nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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