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title: The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strengt… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers. Who acts: poor wife, strength. 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 75

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The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers.

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**Who acts:** poor wife, strength · **What happens:** be, have, rise, welcome · **To what, where:** strength, brothers

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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 (poor wife, strength), 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:pg503:40:75
# text = The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the poor wife |  |  |  |  | as happiness's husband; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | strength |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | to-infinitive | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **welcome** | infinitive | strength *not said here* | happiness's brothers |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |

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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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