The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 109

But this man had the misfortune to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly, that all the women and girls ran away from him.

Who acts: man, misfortune, blue beard, women · What happens: have, make, run away · To what, where: misfortune, blue beard, man

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, misfortune, blue beard, women), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 misfortune	det
6	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beard	det
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beard	amod
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beard	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 ugly	advmod
17	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	18 ugly	advmod
18	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ran	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 women	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 women	det
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ran	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 girls	cc
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 women	conj
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ran	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	this man	the misfortune		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	the misfortune not said here	a blue beard		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
3	make	past	a blue beard	man	ugly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	run away	past	all women and girls		from man; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/109/