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title: She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young g… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Blue Beard. Who acts:
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 77

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She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Blue Beard.

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**Who acts:** mistress, worthy gentleman · **What happens:** make, marry, love, buy, forget, pass · **To what, where:** use, sister, young gentleman, captains commissions, mistress, ill time

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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 (mistress, worthy gentleman), 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:pg503:40:77
# text = She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Blue Beard.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	compound	_	_
31	commissions	commission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | mistress | use of one part of part |  |  |  | the rest *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive | mistress *not said here* | mistress's sister |  |  |  | to a young gentleman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sister=Patient to gentleman=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **love** | past · perfect · passive |  | a young gentleman |  |  | while |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | mistress *not said here* | captains commissions |  |  |  | for mistress's brothers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent commission=Theme for brother=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | mistress *not said here* | mistress |  |  |  | to a worthy gentleman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to gentleman=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past | a worthy gentleman | mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **forget** | infinitive | mistress *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **pass** | past · perfect | mistress | the ill time *not said here* |  |  |  | with Blue Beard | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory |
| 9 | **use** |  |  | one part of part |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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