The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 75
In the evening when the goose-girl came home he called her aside, and asked her why she behaved as she did.
Who acts: goose girl, Curdken, girl · What happens: come, call, ask, behave, do · To what, where: girl · 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 (goose girl, Curdken, girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 goose | punct |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | obj |
| 14 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 behaved | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 behaved | nsubj |
| 21 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 behaved | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the goose girl | evening | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past | Curdken | girl | aside property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | behave | past | girl | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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