The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 119

About a month afterwards Blue Beard told his wife that he was obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at least, about affairs of very great consequence, desiring her to divert herself in his absence, to send for her friends and acquaintances, to carry them into the country, if she pleased, and to make good cheer wherever she was.

Who acts: Blue Beard, Beard · What happens: tell, oblige, take, desire, divert, send · To what, where: wife, Beard, country journey, least, marriage, absence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Blue Beard, Beard), 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 month	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl:unmarked
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
5	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Beard	amod
6	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 obliged	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obliged	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	aux:pass
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 journey	det
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 journey	compound
18	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 weeks	case
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 weeks	nummod
21	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	case
23	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 affairs	punct
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 affairs	case
26	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 consequence	case
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 great	advmod
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 consequence	amod
30	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 affairs	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 desiring	punct
32	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 desiring	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 divert	mark
35	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 desiring	xcomp
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 divert	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 absence	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 absence	nmod:poss
39	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 divert	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 send	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 send	mark
42	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 divert	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 friends	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 friends	nmod:poss
45	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 send	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 acquaintances	cc
47	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 friends	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 carry	punct
49	to	to	PART	_	50 carry	mark
50	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 send	parataxis
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 carry	obj
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 country	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 country	det
54	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carry	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 pleased	punct
56	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 pleased	mark
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pleased	nsubj
58	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 carry	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 make	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 make	cc
61	to	to	PART	_	62 make	mark
62	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	ccomp
63	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 cheer	amod
64	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 make	obj
65	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	62 make	ccomp
66	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 was	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 wherever	cop
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Blue Beard		Beard's wife		month	about affairs of great consequence; afterwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	oblige	past · passive		Beard					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	take	to-infinitive		a country journey		least	week		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent journey=Theme at least=Asset
4	desire	gerund	Blue Beard not said here	marriage					tree rules
5	divert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Blue Beard not said here	marriage		Beard's absence			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	send	to-infinitive	Blue Beard not said here					for marriage's friends and acquaintances	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	carry	to-infinitive		wives = wife		the country			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		good cheer					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product
9	is	past						wherever property	tree rules
10	absent		Beard						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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