The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 2
But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him.
Who acts: man, blue beard, women · What happens: be, have, make, run away · To what, where: blue beard, man
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 (man, 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 | _ | 6 unlucky | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unlucky | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unlucky | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 unlucky | advmod |
| 6 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unlucky | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beard | det |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beard | amod |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 ugly | advmod |
| 18 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 19 ugly | advmod |
| 19 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 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 | 19 ugly | advcl |
| 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 | 27 away | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this man | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | this man 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 | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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