The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 46

And when they had reached the common where the geese fed she sat down and unloosed her hair, which was of pure gold.

Who acts: geese, common, heart, hair · What happens: reach, feed, sit down, unloose, be · To what, where: hair

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 (geese, common, heart, hair), 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	_	5 reached	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 common	det
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fed	nsubj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 fed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 geese	det
10	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fed	nsubj
11	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	advcl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fed	ccomp
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unloosed	cc
16	unloosed	unloose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unloosed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gold	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 gold	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gold	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
23	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gold	amod
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hair	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	geese = goose			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feed	past	the common			tree rules
3	sit down	past	heart			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	unloose	past	heart not said here	heart's hair and pure gold		tree rules
5	is	past	heart's hair and pure gold		of pure gold	tree rules

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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