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title: Her neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent for by the ne… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent for by the new married lady, so great was their impatience to see all the rich furniture of her house, not daring to come while her husband was there, because of his blue beard, which frightened them. Who acts: neighbors, new married lady, husba
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 16

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Her neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent for by the new married lady, so great was their impatience to see all the rich furniture of her house, not daring to come while her husband was there, because of his blue beard, which frightened them.

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**Who acts:** neighbors, new married lady, husband, blue beard · **What happens:** not stay, send, be, see, not dare, not come · **To what, where:** great impatience, rich furniture, neighbors

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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 (neighbors, new married lady, husband, blue 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:pg503:40:16
# text = Her neighbors and good friends did not stay to be sent for by the new married lady, so great was their impatience to see all the rich furniture of her house, not daring to come while her husband was there, because of his blue beard, which frightened them.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	48	case	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | past · do-support | manner's neighbors and good friends |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive · passive | the new married lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | neighbors's great impatience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | manner's neighbors and good friends *not said here* | all rich furniture of manner's house |  |  |  | because husband's blue beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **dare** | gerund | manner's neighbors and good friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **come** | to-infinitive | manner's neighbors and good friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | manner's husband |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **frighten** | past | husband's blue beard | neighbors *= neighbor* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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