The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 35
Blue Beard, having very attentively considered it, said to his wife,
Who acts: Blue Beard · What happens: have, consider, say · To what, where: closet, wife · 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), 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 | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Beard | acl |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 attentively | advmod |
| 6 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 7 considered | advmod |
| 7 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 considered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beard | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Blue Beard not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consider | past | Blue Beard not said here | closet | attentively property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Blue Beard | beard's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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