The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 5

They would neither of them have him, and sent him backward and forward from one another, not being able to bear the thoughts of marrying a man who had a blue beard, and what besides gave them disgust and aversion was his having already been married to several wives, and nobody ever knew what became of them.

Who acts: beauties, thoughts, man, besides, nobody · What happens: have, send, not be, bear, marry, give · To what, where: One, thoughts, man, blue beard, beauties, disgust · 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 (beauties, thoughts, man, besides), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 neither	obl
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sent	cc
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sent	obj
12	backward	backward	ADV	_	10 sent	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forward	cc
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 backward	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sent	obl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 able	advmod
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sent	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bear	mark
23	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thoughts	det
25	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bear	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 marrying	mark
27	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 thoughts	acl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 marrying	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 man	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 beard	det
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beard	amod
34	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 gave	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gave	cc
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 gave	obj
38	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gave	nsubj
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gave	obj
41	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 married	nsubj:pass
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 aversion	cc
43	aversion	aversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 disgust	conj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 married	aux:pass
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 married	nsubj:pass
46	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 married	aux
47	already	already	ADV	_	49 married	advmod
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 married	aux:pass
49	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 gave	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 wives	case
51	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 wives	amod
52	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 married	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 knew	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 knew	cc
55	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	57 knew	nsubj
56	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	57 knew	advmod
57	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 gave	parataxis
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	59 became	nsubj
59	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 knew	ccomp
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 them	case
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 became	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	beauties = beauty	One		neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	send	past	beauties = beauty not said here	One		from one; backward property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from one=Initial_Location
3	not is	gerund				able property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive		the thoughts			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
5	marry	gerund	the thoughts not said here	a man			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
6	have	past	a man	a blue beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
7	give	past	besides	beauties = beauty			tree rules
8	marry	past · perfect · passive		disgust and aversion		to several wives	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient
9	know	past	nobody		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	become	past				of beauties = beauty	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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