The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 49

“Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold, Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.”

Who acts: Wind, Curdken · What happens: blow, let, chase, hang down, comb, plait · To what, where: hat, Curdken, o’er field, crown

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 (Wind, Curdken), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Blow	punct
2	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Blow	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wind	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sway	punct
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 sway	advmod
7	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wind	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wind	punct
9	Blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hat	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Curdken	case
12	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Blow	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	9 Blow	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Blow	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Let	obj
17	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	o’er	o'	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 field	amod
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chase	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wold	cc
21	wold	wold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 field	conj
22	Till	till	ADP	_	24 locks	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 locks	nmod:poss
24	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chase	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 gold	case
26	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gold	amod
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 locks	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 astray	punct
29	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 astray	advmod
30	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Blow	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hanging	cc
32	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 astray	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 hanging	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 combed	punct
35	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 combed	aux:pass
36	combed	comb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Blow	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 plaited	cc
38	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 combed	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 crown	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 crown	det
41	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 plaited	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Blow	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow in a quote	infinitive	Wind and wind and sway	Curdken's hat			away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
2	let in a quote	infinitive	Wind and wind and sway not said here	Curdken				tree rules
3	chase in a quote	infinitive	Curdken not said here	o’er field and wold		till my locks of ruddy gold		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme
4	hang down in a quote	gerund	Wind and wind and sway not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	comb in a quote	infinitive · passive	Wind and wind and sway not said here					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»
6	plait in a quote	participle	Wind and wind and sway not said here		a crown			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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