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title: Blue Beard returned from his journey the same evening, and said he h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Blue Beard returned from his journey the same evening, and said he had received letters upon the road, informing him that the affair he went about was ended to his advantage. Who acts: Blue Beard, beard. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 28

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Blue Beard returned from his journey the same evening, and said he had received letters upon the road, informing him that the affair he went about was ended to his advantage.

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**Who acts:** Blue Beard, beard · **What happens:** return, say, receive, inform, go about, end · **To what, where:** journey, letters, road, beard, affair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Blue Beard, 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:pg503:40:28
# text = Blue Beard returned from his journey the same evening, and said he had received letters upon the road, informing him that the affair he went about was ended to his advantage.
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
16	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	informing	inform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Blue Beard |  |  | beard's journey | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Blue Beard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **receive** | past · perfect | beard | letters |  | the road |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme upon road=Location |
| 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | gerund | beard *not said here* |  | beard |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **go about** | past | beard | the affair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Theme |
| 6 | **end** | past · passive |  | the affair |  |  |  | to beard's advantage; about *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **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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