Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 48

Then there came a wind, so strong that it blew off Curdken's hat, and away it flew over the hills, and he after it; till, by the time he came back, she had done combing and curling her hair, and put it up again safely.

Who acts: wind, hat, Curdken, heart · What happens: come, blow off, fly, come back, do, comb · To what, where: hat, hills, hair

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, hat, Curdken, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strong	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 blew	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blew	nsubj
11	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 strong	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 blew	compound:prt
13	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hat	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Curdken	case
15	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blew	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flew	cc
18	away	away	ADV	_	20 flew	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 hills	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hills	det
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 it	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 it	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 it	nsubj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 came	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 done	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 came	parataxis
42	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 done	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 curling	cc
44	curling	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 combing	conj
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 hair	nmod:poss
46	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 curling	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 put	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 put	cc
49	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 done	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 put	obj
51	up	up	ADP	_	49 put	compound:prt
52	again	again	ADV	_	49 put	advmod
53	safely	safely	ADV	_	49 put	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a wind		there	after hat; then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow off	past	wind	Curdken's hat				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
3	fly	past	hat		the hills		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location
4	come back	past	Curdken			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	heart					tree rules
6	comb	gerund	heart not said here					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	curl	gerund	heart not said here	heart's hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
8	put up	infinitive	heart not said here	hat		again	safely property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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