The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 51
When he returned from the pursuit she had finished her combing and curling, and his chance of getting any hair was gone.
Who acts: gust, mother, chance · What happens: return, finish, get, be, comb, chance · To what, where: pursuit, combing, 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 (gust, mother, chance), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pursuit | det |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finished | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 finished | aux |
| 9 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 pursuit | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 combing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | combing | combing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finished | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 curling | cc |
| 13 | curling | curling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 combing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gone | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chance | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 getting | mark |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 chance | acl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 hair | det |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 getting | obj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | cop |
| 23 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | gust | the pursuit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pursuit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | mother | mother's combing and curling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector combing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | gust's chance not said here | any hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | gust's chance | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | comb | mother | nom combing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | chance | gust | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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