The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 53
In the meanwhile Blue Beard, holding a great sabre in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:
Who acts: meanwhile Blue Beard, beard · What happens: hold, cry out, bawl · To what, where: great sabre, hand, wife
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 (meanwhile 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Beard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beard | det |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Beard | compound |
| 4 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Beard | amod |
| 5 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beard | punct |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Beard | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sabre | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sabre | amod |
| 10 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hand | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 loud | advmod |
| 18 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 bawl | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bawl | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bawl | aux |
| 22 | bawl | bawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 loud | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bawl | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | the meanwhile Blue Beard not said here | a great sabre | beard's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | participle | beard's hand not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bawl speech: other | could | beard | beard's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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