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title: In the mean while Blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mean while Blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife: Who acts: mean, grass. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 31

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In the mean while Blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:

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**Who acts:** mean, grass · **What happens:** hold, cry out, bawl · **To what, where:** great scimitar, hand, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mean, grass), 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:pg29021:8:31
# text = In the mean while Blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mean	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bawl	bawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | the mean *not said here* | a great scimitar |  | Beard's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle |  | Beard's hand *not said here* |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bawl** *speech: other* | could | grass |  | grass's wife |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |

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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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