The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 38

There was in the town a large dark gate, through which she had to pass night and morning with the geese; would he “kindly hang up Falada’s head there, that she might see it once again?”

Who acts: large dark gate, gate, Falada · What happens: be, have, pass, hang up, see · To what, where: town, head

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 (large dark gate, gate, Falada), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gate	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gate	amod
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gate	amod
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pass	mark
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 morning	cc
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 geese	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 geese	det
22	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pass	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hang	aux
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hang	nsubj
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct
27	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	28 hang	advmod
28	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pass	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 hang	compound:prt
30	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 head	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Falada	case
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hang	obj
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 head	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 see	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hang	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	obj
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 see	advmod
41	again	again	ADV	_	38 see	advmod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a large dark gate		the town; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	have	past	gate					tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	gate not said here			night	with the geese	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hang up in a quote	would	Falada	Falada's head			kindly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	see in a quote	might	gate	head		again	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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