--- title: Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady thei… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: 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 neighbourhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week. Who acts: Blue Beard, beauties. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:7:114 # text = 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 neighbourhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week. 1 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Beard Beard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 engage engage VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 affection affection NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 neighbourhood neighbourhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **engage** | to-infinitive | Blue Beard | beauties's affection | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | | beauties *= beauty* | | | | with the lady; with other young people of the neighbourhood; three ladies of beauties's acquaintance *obl* | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/115/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/)