The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 6

Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady their mother and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week.

Who acts: Blue Beard, beauties · What happens: engage, take, stay, acquaint · To what, where: affection, beauties

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, beauties), 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	9 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 engage	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 engage	mark
5	engage	engage	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Beard	parataxis
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 affection	nmod:poss
7	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 engage	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Beard	punct
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 lady	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lady	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ladies	cc
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 ladies	nummod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 four	cc
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 three	conj
21	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mother	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 acquaintance	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 acquaintance	nmod:poss
24	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ladies	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mother	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 neighborhood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 neighborhood	det
32	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 people	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 one	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 took	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 seats	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 seats	nmod:poss
38	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seats	compound
39	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 one	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 stayed	punct
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 stayed	advmod
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 stayed	nsubj
43	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 week	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 week	amod
46	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stayed	obl:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	engage	to-infinitive		beauties's affection			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient
2	take	past	Blue Beard	beauties = beauty		with the lady	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stay	past	beauties = beauty		week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	acquaint		beauties = beauty				nom acquaintance «cognition 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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