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title: She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; bu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; but Blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock! Who acts: lady, Blue Beard. 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 43

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She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; but Blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock!

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**Who acts:** lady, Blue Beard · **What happens:** melt, be, have · **To what, where:** rock, Fail, heart

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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, 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:pg503:40:43
# text = She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; but Blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | would · perfect | lady | a rock |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rock=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past | lady *not said here* | Fail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Blue Beard | a heart |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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