---
title: “‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the meaning of all this? Who acts: Wonderful Sheep, that, Ragotte. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/22/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 22

# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 22

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the meaning of all this?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Wonderful Sheep, that, Ragotte · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Ragotte, meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Wonderful Sheep, that, Ragotte), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:31:22
# text = “‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the meaning of all this?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Wonderful Sheep *= sheep* | Ragotte *not said here* |  |  |  | for fairy name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ragotte=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | that |  |  |  |  | 's the fairy | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Ragotte | the meaning |  |  |  | of this | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/21/)
- next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/23/)
- ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)