Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 82
And soon came a gale of wind, and carried away Curdken’s hat, and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and curling her hair.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, carry away, go, curl · To what, where: gale, hat, combing, hair
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 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 gale | det |
| 5 | gale | gale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gale | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 12 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Curdken | case |
| 14 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | conj |
| 19 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | flat |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 went | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 combing | case |
| 28 | combing | combing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 curling | cc |
| 30 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 combing | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hair | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 curling | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a gale of wind | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past | Curdken's hat | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | after hat | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the girl | combing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on combing=Location | ||||
| 5 | curl | gerund | the girl not said here | girl's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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