The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 50

Then a gust of wind blew Curdken’s hat away, and he had to chase it over hill and dale.

Who acts: gust · What happens: blow, have, chase · To what, where: hat, hill

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 (gust), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blew	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gust	det
3	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gust	nmod
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hat	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Curdken	case
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 blew	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blew	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 chase	mark
16	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chase	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 hill	case
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chase	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dale	cc
21	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hill	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	a gust of wind	Curdken's hat		then	away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
2	have	past	gust					tree rules
3	chase	to-infinitive	gust not said here	hat	hill and dale			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over hill=Trajectory

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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