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title: But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him. Who acts: man, blue beard, women. 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 2

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But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him.

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**Who acts:** man, blue beard, women · **What happens:** be, have, make, run away · **To what, where:** blue beard, man

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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 (man, blue beard, women), 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:pg503:40:2
# text = But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this man |  |  |  |  | unlucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | this man *not said here* | a blue beard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | a blue beard | man |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 4 | **run away** | past | all women and girls |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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