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title: “At this dreadful sight I drew my sword and rushed at Ragotte, and s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “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
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 36

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“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:

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**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

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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.

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**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:pg503:31:36
# text = “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:
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
30	chained	chain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
55	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	54	obj	_	_
56	down	down	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
65	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
68	with	with	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	71	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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