The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 61

Then a puff of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat far away, so that he had to run after it; and when he returned she had long finished putting up her golden locks, and he couldn’t get any hair; so they watched the geese till it was dark.

Who acts: puff, Curdken, locks, hat · What happens: come, blow, have, run, return, finish · To what, where: hat, golden locks, hair, geese, wind

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 (puff, Curdken, locks, hat), 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 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puff	det
3	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puff	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
9	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hat	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Curdken	case
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obj
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	8 blew	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 had	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blew	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 run	mark
20	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 run	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 finished	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 finished	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 returned	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 returned	nsubj
27	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 finished	advcl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 finished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 finished	aux
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 finished	advmod
31	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
32	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 finished	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 putting	compound:prt
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 locks	nmod:poss
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 locks	amod
36	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 putting	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 get	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 get	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 get	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 get	aux
41	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 get	advmod
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	44 hair	det
44	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 watched	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	48 watched	advmod
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 watched	nsubj
48	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 geese	det
50	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 watched	obj
51	till	till	SCONJ	_	54 dark	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 dark	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 dark	cop
54	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 watched	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a puff of wind		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	past	a puff of wind not said here	Curdken's hat		away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
3	have	past	Curdken				tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here		after hat		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	past	Curdken				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	finish	past · perfect	puff			long property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	put up	gerund	puff not said here	puff's golden locks			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lock=Goal
8	not get	could	Curdken	any hair			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus
9	watch	past	locks = lock	the geese			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
10	is	past	hat			dark property	tree rules
11	puff			wind			nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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