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title: And Curdken went on to tell what passed on the common where the gees… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Curdken went on to tell what passed on the common where the geese fed, and how he had always to chase his hat. Who acts: Curdken, geese. 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 69

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And Curdken went on to tell what passed on the common where the geese fed, and how he had always to chase his hat.

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**Who acts:** Curdken, geese · **What happens:** go on, tell, pass, feed, have, chase · **To what, where:** common, hat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, geese), 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:pg503:37:69
# text = And Curdken went on to tell what passed on the common where the geese fed, and how he had always to chase his hat.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** | past |  |  |  | the common |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on common=Location |
| 4 | **feed** | participle | the geese |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chase** | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* | Curdken's hat |  |  |  | always *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

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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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