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title: She promised to observe, very exactly, whatever he had ordered; when… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She promised to observe, very exactly, whatever he had ordered; when he, after having embraced her, got into his coach and proceeded on his journey. Who acts: manner, beard. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 15

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She promised to observe, very exactly, whatever he had ordered; when he, after having embraced her, got into his coach and proceeded on his journey.

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**Who acts:** manner, beard · **What happens:** promise, observe, order, have, embrace, get · **To what, where:** whatever, manner, coach, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, 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:pg503:40:15
# text = She promised to observe, very exactly, whatever he had ordered; when he, after having embraced her, got into his coach and proceeded on his journey.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
19	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | manner |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **observe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **order** | past · perfect | beard | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | beard |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **embrace** | past |  | manner |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **get** | past |  |  |  | beard's coach |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination |
| 7 | **proceed** | past |  |  |  | beard's journey |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **journey** |  | beard |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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