The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 77

She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Blue Beard.

Who acts: mistress, worthy gentleman · What happens: make, marry, love, buy, forget, pass · To what, where: use, sister, young gentleman, captains commissions, mistress, ill time

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 (mistress, worthy gentleman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 part	nummod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 part	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
13	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sister	appos
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 gentleman	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gentleman	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gentleman	amod
17	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 loved	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 loved	aux
20	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 gentleman	acl:relcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 loved	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 while	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 while	amod
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loved	obl:unmarked
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 part	det
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 buy	mark
29	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 part	acl
30	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 commissions	compound
31	commissions	commission	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buy	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 brothers	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brothers	nmod:poss
34	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buy	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rest	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rest	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rest	det
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 marry	mark
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 rest	acl
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 marry	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	46 gentleman	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 gentleman	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 worthy	advmod
45	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 gentleman	amod
46	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 marry	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 made	punct
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 made	nsubj
49	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 gentleman	acl:relcl
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 made	obj
51	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 made	xcomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 time	det
53	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 time	amod
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 forget	obj
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 passed	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 passed	aux
57	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 time	acl:relcl
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 Beard	case
59	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Beard	amod
60	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 passed	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	mistress	use of one part of part		the rest obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
2	marry	to-infinitive	mistress not said here	mistress's sister		to a young gentleman	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sister=Patient to gentleman=Co-Patient
3	love	past · perfect · passive		a young gentleman	while		tree rules
4	buy	to-infinitive	mistress not said here	captains commissions		for mistress's brothers	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent commission=Theme for brother=Beneficiary
5	marry	to-infinitive	mistress not said here	mistress		to a worthy gentleman	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to gentleman=Co-Patient
6	make	past	a worthy gentleman	mistress			tree rules
7	forget	infinitive	mistress not said here		time		tree rules
8	pass	past · perfect	mistress	the ill time not said here		with Blue Beard	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory
9	use			one part of part			nom use «act transitive»: of=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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