--- title: “To tell the truth, I was so lost in admiration of her beautiful sla… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:31:35 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 To to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 admiration admiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 obj _ _ 21 else else ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Ragotte Ragotte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 perceiving perceive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 43 lifeless lifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/36/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)