The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 72

He soon saw with his own eyes how the goose-boy and the goose-girl looked after the geese, and how after a time the maiden sat down and loosed her hair, that glittered like gold, and repeated:

Who acts: Curdken, goose boy, maiden, hair · What happens: see, look, sit down, loose, glitter, repeat · To what, where: hair

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, goose boy, maiden, hair), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 looked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
10	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 goose	punct
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 girl	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
15	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 girl	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 goose	punct
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	conj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	advcl
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 geese	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 geese	det
21	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 sat	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maiden	det
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sat	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 loosed	cc
33	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sat	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hair	nmod:poss
35	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loosed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 glittered	punct
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 glittered	nsubj
38	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hair	acl:relcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 gold	case
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 glittered	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 repeated	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 repeated	cc
43	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	parataxis
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Curdken			with Curdken's own eyes; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	past	the goose boy and the goose girl		after the geese		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sit down	past	the maiden		time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	loose	past	the maiden not said here	girl's hair			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	glitter	past	girl's hair			like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	repeat	participle					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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