The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 9

In short, everything succeeded so well that the youngest daughter began to think the master of the house not to have a beard so very blue, and that he was a mighty civil gentleman.

Who acts: youngest daughter, master · What happens: succeed, begin, think, not have, be · To what, where: everything, beard, mighty civil gentleman · 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 (youngest daughter, master), 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	_	4 everything	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 everything	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 succeeded	obl
5	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 succeeded	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 began	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 succeeded	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 think	mark
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 master	det
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 master	nmod
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 have	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beard	det
24	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 blue	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 blue	advmod
27	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 have	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gentleman	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gentleman	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 gentleman	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gentleman	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gentleman	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 gentleman	det
34	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gentleman	amod
35	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gentleman	amod
36	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 succeeded	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	past			everything	well property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in everything=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the youngest daughter				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the youngest daughter not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not have	to-infinitive	the master of the house	a beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
5	is a	past	master	a mighty civil gentleman			tree rules

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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