The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 4

As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his head, the village girls used to cry after him, ‘Well, Star Gazer, what are you doing?’ and Michael would answer, ‘Oh, nothing,’ and go on his way without even turning to look at them.

Who acts: boy, hair, village girls, Star, Michael · What happens: have, curl, use, cry, do, answer · To what, where: white skin, head, nothing, way

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hair, village girls, Star), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skin	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eyes	punct
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skin	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hair	cc
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 curled	nsubj
14	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hair	acl:relcl
15	all	all	ADV	_	18 head	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 curled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girls	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 girls	compound
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 curled	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cry	mark
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cry	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
30	Well	well	INTJ	_	38 doing	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Well	punct
32	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 doing	nsubj
33	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Star	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 doing	obj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 doing	aux
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 doing	nsubj
38	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 used	parataxis
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 answer	cc
42	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 answer	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 answer	aux
44	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 nothing	punct
46	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 nothing	punct
47	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	49 nothing	discourse
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Oh	punct
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 answer	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 nothing	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	49 nothing	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 go	cc
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 answer	conj
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 way	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 way	nmod:poss
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 go	obl
57	without	without	SCONJ	_	59 turning	mark
58	even	even	ADV	_	59 turning	advmod
59	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 go	advcl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 look	mark
61	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 turning	xcomp
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 look	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	a white skin and blue eyes				tree rules
2	curl	past	hair		boy's head			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination
3	use	past	the village girls					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the village girls not said here			after boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	present · progressive	Star					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	answer speech: assert	would	Michael	nothing				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
7	go	infinitive	Michael not said here		boy's way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
8	turn	gerund	Michael not said here					tree rules
9	look	to-infinitive	Michael not said here				at girls = girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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