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title: Then a gust of wind blew Curdken’s hat away, and he had to chase it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a gust of wind blew Curdken’s hat away, and he had to chase it over hill and dale. Who acts: gust. 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 50

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Then a gust of wind blew Curdken’s hat away, and he had to chase it over hill and dale.

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**Who acts:** gust · **What happens:** blow, have, chase · **To what, where:** hat, hill

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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 (gust), 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:pg503:37:50
# text = Then a gust of wind blew Curdken’s hat away, and he had to chase it over hill and dale.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gust	gust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | a gust of wind | Curdken's hat |  |  | then | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | gust |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | to-infinitive | gust *not said here* | hat |  | hill and dale |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over hill=Trajectory |

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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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