--- title: "Nought will avail," said Blue Beard, "you must die"; then, taking h… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "Nought will avail," said Blue Beard, "you must die"; then, taking hold of her hair with one hand, and lifting up his scimitar with the other, he was going to take off her head. Who acts: Nought, Blue Beard, you, Beard. 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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 (Nought, Blue Beard, you, Beard), 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:pg29021:8:50 # text = "Nought will avail," said Blue Beard, "you must die"; then, taking hold of her hair with one hand, and lifting up his scimitar with the other, he was going to take off her head. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 avail avail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Beard Beard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 20 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 scimitar scimitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avail** *in a quote* | future | Nought | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Blue Beard | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **take** | gerund | Blue Beard *not said here* | hold of way's hair | | | then | with one hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 5 | **lift up** | gerund | Blue Beard *not said here* | Beard's scimitar | | | | with the other | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past · progressive | Beard | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **take off** | to-infinitive | Beard *not said here* | way's head | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 8 | **hold** | | | way's hair | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/51/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/)