The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 74

Then a gust of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat away, so that he had to fly over hill and dale after it, and the girl in the meantime quietly combed and plaited her hair: all this the old King observed, and returned to the palace without anyone having noticed him.

Who acts: gust, Curdken, girl, old King · What happens: come, blow, have, fly, comb, plait · To what, where: hat, hill, hair, Curdken

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 (gust, Curdken, girl, old King), 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 gust	det
3	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gust	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	away	away	ADV	_	8 blew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 had	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fly	mark
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 hill	case
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fly	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dale	cc
23	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hill	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fly	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 combed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 combed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 combed	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 meantime	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 meantime	det
32	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 girl	nmod
33	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	34 combed	advmod
34	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 plaited	cc
36	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 combed	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plaited	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 observed	punct
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 observed	det:predet
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 all	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 King	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 King	amod
44	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 observed	nsubj
45	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 combed	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 returned	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 returned	cc
48	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 palace	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 palace	det
51	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 returned	obl
52	without	without	ADP	_	53 anyone	case
53	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 returned	obl
54	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 anyone	acl
55	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 having	advcl
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 noticed	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a gust of wind			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	past	a gust 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	fly	to-infinitive	Curdken not said here		hill and dale	after hat		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location
5	comb	past	the girl in the meantime				quietly property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	plait	past	the girl in the meantime not said here	girl's hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
7	observe	past	the old King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	return	past	a gust of wind not said here				to the palace result; without anyone	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
9	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	notice	past		Curdken				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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