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title: "THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38 — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38 Who acts: MAN. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, sentence 1

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"THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" \_facing\_ 38

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**Who acts:** MAN · **What happens:** have, face · **To what, where:** MISFORTUNE, BLUE BEARD, 38

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:4:1
# text = "THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THIS	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	HAD	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	MISFORTUNE	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	TO	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	HAVE	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	BLUE	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	BEARD	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
16	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | this MAN | the MISFORTUNE |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Patient |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this MAN *not said here* | a BLUE BEARD |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | this MAN *not said here* | 38 |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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