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title: Upon this she threw herself at her husband’s feet, and begged his pa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this she threw herself at her husband’s feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of true repentance, vowing that she would never more be disobedient. Who acts: lady, husband. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 42

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Upon this she threw herself at her husband’s feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of true repentance, vowing that she would never more be disobedient.

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**Who acts:** lady, husband · **What happens:** throw, beg, vow, be, pardon, sign · **To what, where:** lady, feet, pardon, true repentance

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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 (lady, husband), 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:pg503:40:42
# text = Upon this she threw herself at her husband’s feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of true repentance, vowing that she would never more be disobedient.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	vowing	vow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | lady | lady |  | lady's husband's feet |  | upon this | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon this=Destination |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | lady *not said here* | husband's pardon |  |  |  | with all signs of true repentance | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 3 | **vow** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | would | lady |  |  |  |  | disobedient *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pardon** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sign** |  |  | true repentance |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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