The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 76

Blue Beard had no heirs, and so his wife became mistress of all his estate.

Who acts: Blue, wife · What happens: have, become · To what, where: heirs, mistress

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, wife), 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	3 had	nsubj
2	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Blue	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 heirs	det
5	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 became	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
12	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 estate	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 estate	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 estate	nmod:poss
16	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mistress	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Blue	no heirs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
2	become	past	gate's wife	mistress of gate's estate					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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