The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 36

“At this dreadful sight I drew my sword and rushed at Ragotte, and should certainly have cut off her head had she not by her magic arts chained me to the spot on which I stood; all my efforts to move were useless, and at last, when I threw myself down on the ground in despair, she said to me, with a scornful smile:

Who acts: Miranda, head, efforts · What happens: draw, rush, cut off, have, not chain, stand · To what, where: sword, dreadful sight, Ragotte, Miranda, spot, last · 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, head, efforts), 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	_	7 drew	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	5 sight	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sight	det
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 useless	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rushed	cc
11	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drew	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Ragotte	case
13	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rushed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 cut	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 drew	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	23 had	mark
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	advcl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 chained	nsubj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 chained	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 arts	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arts	nmod:poss
28	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 arts	amod
29	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 chained	obl
30	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 chained	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 spot	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spot	det
34	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chained	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stood	obl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 spot	acl:relcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 useless	punct
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 efforts	det:predet
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 efforts	nmod:poss
42	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 useless	nsubj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 move	mark
44	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 efforts	acl
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 useless	cop
46	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 threw	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 threw	cc
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 last	case
50	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 threw	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 last	punct
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 threw	advmod
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 threw	nsubj
54	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 useless	parataxis
55	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	54 threw	obj
56	down	down	ADP	_	54 threw	compound:prt
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 ground	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ground	det
59	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 threw	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 despair	case
61	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 threw	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 said	punct
63	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 said	nsubj
64	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 useless	conj
65	to	to	ADP	_	66 me	case
66	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 said	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 smile	punct
68	with	with	ADP	_	71 smile	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 smile	det
70	scornful	scornful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 smile	amod
71	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 said	ccomp
72	:	:	PUNCT	_	71 smile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw in a quote	past	Miranda	my sword		this dreadful sight		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	rush in a quote	past	Miranda not said here			Ragotte		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ragotte=Trajectory
3	cut off in a quote	should · perfect	Miranda not said here				certainly property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	have in a quote	past	Ragotte's head					tree rules
5	not chain in a quote	past	head	Miranda			by Ragotte's magic arts; to the spot	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to spot=Co-Patient
6	stand in a quote	past	Miranda			the spot		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
7	move in a quote	to-infinitive	my efforts not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	is in a quote	past	my efforts				useless property	tree rules
9	throw down in a quote	past	Miranda	Miranda		last	on the ground; in despair	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at last=Destination
10	say speech: assert in a quote	past	head		Miranda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient

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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