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title: Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady thei… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady their mother and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week. Who acts: Blue Beard, beauties. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» b
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 6

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Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady their mother and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week.

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**Who acts:** Blue Beard, beauties · **What happens:** engage, take, stay, acquaint · **To what, where:** affection, beauties

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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, beauties), 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:pg503:40:6
# text = Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady their mother and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week.
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	engage	engage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | to-infinitive |  | beauties's affection |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Blue Beard | beauties *= beauty* |  |  |  | with the lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | past | beauties *= beauty* |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **acquaint** |  | beauties *= beauty* |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition 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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