The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 47
Curdken loved to see it glitter in the sun, and wanted much to pull some hair out.
Who acts: Curdken, common · What happens: love, see, glitter, want, pull out · To what, where: common, sun, much, 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 (Curdken, common), 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 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loved | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | glitter | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glitter | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | parataxis |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wanted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pull | mark |
| 15 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 much | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 hair | det |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pull | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pull | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Curdken | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Curdken not said here | common | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glitter | infinitive | common not said here | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location | ||||
| 4 | want | past | much | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pull out | to-infinitive | some hair | 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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