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title: Curdken loved to see it glitter in the sun, and wanted much to pull… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Curdken loved to see it glitter in the sun, and wanted much to pull some hair out. Who acts: Curdken, common. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 47

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Curdken loved to see it glitter in the sun, and wanted much to pull some hair out.

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**Who acts:** Curdken, common · **What happens:** love, see, glitter, want, pull out · **To what, where:** common, sun, much, hair

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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, common), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:37:47
# text = Curdken loved to see it glitter in the sun, and wanted much to pull some hair out.
1	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	glitter	glitter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* | common |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glitter** | infinitive | common *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
| 4 | **want** | past |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 5 | **pull out** | to-infinitive |  | some hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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