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title: About a month afterwards Blue Beard told his wife that he was oblige… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: About a month afterwards Blue Beard told his wife that he was obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at least, about affairs of very great consequence, desiring her to divert herself in his absence, to send for her friends and acquaintances, to carry them into the country, if she pleased, a
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 119

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About a month afterwards Blue Beard told his wife that he was obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at least, about affairs of very great consequence, desiring her to divert herself in his absence, to send for her friends and acquaintances, to carry them into the country, if she pleased, and to make good cheer wherever she was.

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**Who acts:** Blue Beard, Beard · **What happens:** tell, oblige, take, desire, divert, send · **To what, where:** wife, Beard, country journey, least, marriage, absence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. 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, Beard), 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:pg29021:7:119
# text = About a month afterwards Blue Beard told his wife that he was obliged to take a country journey for six weeks at least, about affairs of very great consequence, desiring her to divert herself in his absence, to send for her friends and acquaintances, to carry them into the country, if she pleased, and to make good cheer wherever she was.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	divert	divert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
63	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	62	ccomp	_	_
66	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Blue Beard |  | Beard's wife |  | month | about affairs of great consequence; afterwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Beard |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a country journey |  | least | week |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent journey=Theme at least=Asset |
| 4 | **desire** | gerund | Blue Beard *not said here* | marriage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **divert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Blue Beard *not said here* | marriage |  | Beard's absence |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **send** | to-infinitive | Blue Beard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for marriage's friends and acquaintances | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | wives *= wife* |  | the country |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | good cheer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **absent** |  | Beard |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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