The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 35
“To tell the truth, I was so lost in admiration of her beautiful slave that I forgot everything else, and the cruel Ragotte, perceiving this, turned upon her so furious and terrible a look that she fell lifeless to the ground.
Who acts: Miranda, cruel Ragotte, Madam · What happens: tell, lose, forget, perceive, turn, fall · To what, where: truth, Miranda, admiration, beautiful slave, this, look · 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, cruel Ragotte, Madam), 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 tell | mark |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 lost | advmod |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 admiration | case |
| 12 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 slave | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 slave | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slave | amod |
| 16 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 admiration | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 forgot | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forgot | nsubj |
| 19 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slave | acl:relcl |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 forgot | obj |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 everything | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turned | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ragotte | det |
| 25 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Ragotte | amod |
| 26 | Ragotte | Ragotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 perceiving | punct |
| 28 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Ragotte | acl |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 perceiving | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ragotte | punct |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | conj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 turned | obl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 furious | advmod |
| 35 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 turned | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 terrible | cc |
| 37 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 furious | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 look | det |
| 39 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 fell | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fell | nsubj |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 turned | advcl |
| 43 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fell | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 ground | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ground | det |
| 46 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lifeless | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past · passive | Miranda | admiration of Madam's beautiful slave | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | past | Miranda | Madam's beautiful slave | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perceive in a quote | gerund | the cruel Ragotte not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | past | the cruel Ragotte | a look | upon Madam; furious property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent look=Theme | |||
| 6 | fall in a quote | past | Madam | lifeless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | admire in a quote | Madam's beautiful slave | nom admiration «feeling 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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