The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 54

But nothing he could say altered her determination, and at last he drew his sword, and desperately, with a trembling hand, cut off the little white head.

Who acts: task, trembling hand, Blanchette · What happens: say, alter, draw, tremble, cut off, determine · To what, where: nothing, sword, last, little white head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (task, trembling hand, Blanchette), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 altered	cc
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 altered	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 nothing	acl:relcl
6	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 determination	nmod:poss
8	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 altered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drew	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drew	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drew	nsubj
14	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 altered	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sword	nmod:poss
16	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drew	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 desperately	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 desperately	cc
19	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	14 drew	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hand	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 hand	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hand	det
23	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hand	amod
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
26	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hand	acl
27	off	off	ADP	_	31 head	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 head	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 head	amod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 head	amod
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 altered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	task				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	alter	participle · passive		nothing			tree rules
3	draw	past	task	task's sword	last	with a trembling hand; desperately property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	tremble	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cut off	participle	a trembling hand not said here	the little white head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
6	determine		Blanchette				nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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