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title: In the meanwhile Blue Beard, holding a great sabre in his hand, crie… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meanwhile Blue Beard, holding a great sabre in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife: Who acts: meanwhile Blue Beard, 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 53

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In the meanwhile Blue Beard, holding a great sabre in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:

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**Who acts:** meanwhile Blue Beard, beard · **What happens:** hold, cry out, bawl · **To what, where:** great sabre, hand, wife

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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 (meanwhile 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:pg503:40:53
# text = In the meanwhile Blue Beard, holding a great sabre in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bawl	bawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | the meanwhile Blue Beard *not said here* | a great sabre |  | beard's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle |  | beard's hand *not said here* |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bawl** *speech: other* | could | beard |  | beard's wife |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |

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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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