The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 40

Early next morning, as she and Curdken were driving their flock through the gate, she said as she passed under:

Who acts: gate · What happens: drive, say, pass · To what, where: flock, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gate), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 morning	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 driving	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 driving	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 driving	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Curdken	cc
8	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 she	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 driving	aux
10	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 morning	acl:relcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 flock	nmod:poss
12	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driving	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driving	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
22	under	under	ADP	_	21 passed	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	drive	past · progressive	gate	geese's flock	the gate		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flock=Theme through gate=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	gate			morning	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	past	gate				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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