The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 28
Blue Beard returned from his journey the same evening, and said he had received letters upon the road, informing him that the affair he went about was ended to his advantage.
Who acts: Blue Beard, beard · What happens: return, say, receive, inform, go about, end · To what, where: journey, letters, road, beard, affair · 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 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Beard | amod |
| 2 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 evening | amod |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 received | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 received | aux |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 received | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 informing | punct |
| 21 | informing | inform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 received | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 informing | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 ended | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 affair | det |
| 25 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 affair | acl:relcl |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 ended | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ended | aux:pass |
| 30 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 informing | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 advantage | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 33 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ended | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Blue Beard | beard's journey | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blue Beard not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | receive | past · perfect | beard | letters | the road | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme upon road=Location | |||
| 4 | inform speech: other | gerund | beard not said here | beard | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go about | past | beard | the affair not said here | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Theme | ||||
| 6 | end | past · passive | the affair | to beard's advantage; about property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | journey | beard | nom journey «act 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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