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title: (These were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (These were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered, one after another.) Who acts: These. 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 24

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(These were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered, one after another.)

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** be, marry, murder · **To what, where:** wives, Blue Beard

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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 (These), 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:pg503:40:24
# text = (These were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered, one after another.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | These | all wives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | Blue Beard |  |  |  | all wives *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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