The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 52

Curdken was very angry, and wouldn’t speak to her.

Who acts: Curdken · What happens: be, not speak · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	4 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 speak	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 speak	advmod
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Curdken					angry property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	would			mother				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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