The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 31
The youth’s name was Curdken, and the real bride was made to assist him in herding geese.
Who acts: name, Curdken, real bride, youth · What happens: be, make, assist, name · To what, where: Curdken, real bride
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (name, Curdken, real bride, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 youth | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Curdken | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Curdken | cop |
| 6 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bride | amod |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Curdken | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 assist | mark |
| 15 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 assist | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 geese | case |
| 18 | herding | herding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 geese | compound |
| 19 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 assist | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Curdken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the youth's name | Curdken | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | Curdken not said here | the real bride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | assist | to-infinitive | the real bride not said here | Curdken | in herding geese | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | name | the youth | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «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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