The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 24

(These were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered, one after another.)

Who acts: These · What happens: be, marry, murder · To what, where: wives, Blue Beard

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 (These), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 wives	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 wives	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wives	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wives	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wives	det
6	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 married	obl
8	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Beard	amod
9	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 married	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 married	aux
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wives	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 murdered	cc
13	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 married	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 wives	conj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 another	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wives	punct
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 wives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	These	all wives		tree rules
2	marry	past · perfect · passive		Blue Beard	all wives obl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	murder	participle				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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