The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 69

And Curdken went on to tell what passed on the common where the geese fed, and how he had always to chase his hat.

Who acts: Curdken, geese · What happens: go on, tell, pass, feed, have, chase · To what, where: common, hat · 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, geese), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 passed	nsubj
8	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 common	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 common	det
11	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passed	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 fed	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 geese	det
14	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fed	nsubj
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 common	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 had	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 chase	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 chase	mark
23	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hat	nmod:poss
25	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chase	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Curdken				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	past			the common		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on common=Location
4	feed	participle	the geese				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	Curdken				tree rules
6	chase	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here	Curdken's hat		always property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

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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