The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 16
Her neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent for by the new married lady, so great was their impatience to see all the rich furniture of her house, not daring to come while her husband was there, because of his blue beard, which frightened them.
Who acts: neighbors, new married lady, husband, blue beard · What happens: not stay, send, be, see, not dare, not come · To what, where: great impatience, rich furniture, neighbors
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 (neighbors, new married lady, husband, blue 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 friends | cc |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 neighbors | conj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stay | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sent | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 lady | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 16 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 impatience | amod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 impatience | cop |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 23 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stay | advcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 furniture | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 furniture | det |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 furniture | amod |
| 29 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 house | nmod:poss |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 furniture | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 daring | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 daring | advmod |
| 35 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 furniture | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 come | mark |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 daring | xcomp |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 there | mark |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 husband | nmod:poss |
| 40 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 there | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 there | cop |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 come | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 beard | punct |
| 44 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 48 beard | case |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 because | fixed |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 beard | nmod:poss |
| 47 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 beard | amod |
| 48 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 frightened | punct |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 frightened | nsubj |
| 51 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 beard | acl:relcl |
| 52 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 frightened | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | past · do-support | manner's neighbors and good friends | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive · passive | the new married lady | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | neighbors's great impatience | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | manner's neighbors and good friends not said here | all rich furniture of manner's house | because husband's blue beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not dare | gerund | manner's neighbors and good friends not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not come | to-infinitive | manner's neighbors and good friends not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | manner's husband | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | frighten | past | husband's blue beard | neighbors = neighbor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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