The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 62
But that evening when they got home Curdken went to the old King, and said: “I refuse to herd geese any longer with that girl.”
Who acts: locks, Curdken · What happens: get, go, say, refuse, not herd · To what, where: geese · 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 (locks, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | acl:relcl |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 King | amod |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 refuse | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 refuse | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 refuse | nsubj |
| 20 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 herd | mark |
| 22 | herd | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 refuse | xcomp |
| 23 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 herd | obj |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 herd | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 girl | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 girl | det |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 herd | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | locks = lock | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Curdken | evening | to the old King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Curdken not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | refuse in a quote | present | Curdken | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not herd in a quote | to-infinitive | Curdken not said here | geese | with that girl; long property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient with girl=Co-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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