The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 11

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