The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 59
Then she went on her way till she came to the common, where she sat down and began to comb out her hair; then Curdken ran up to her and wanted to grasp some of the hair from her head, but she called out hastily:
Who acts: heart, Curdken · What happens: go, come, sit down, begin, comb out, run up · To what, where: way, common, hair, heart, some, head
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 (heart, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 common | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 common | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sat | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 comb | mark |
| 21 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 comb | compound:prt |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hair | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comb | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ran | advmod |
| 27 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 ran | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ran | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wanted | cc |
| 33 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 grasp | mark |
| 35 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wanted | xcomp |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 grasp | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 hair | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hair | det |
| 39 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 some | nmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 grasp | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 called | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 called | cc |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 called | nsubj |
| 46 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 called | compound:prt |
| 48 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 46 called | advmod |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | heart | heart's way | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | heart | the common | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to common=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | heart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | heart not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | comb out | to-infinitive | heart not said here | heart's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 6 | run up | past | Curdken | heart | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | |||
| 7 | want | past | heart not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | grasp not said to happen | to-infinitive | heart not said here | some | heart's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | call out speech: assert | past | heart | hastily property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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