--- title: “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’e… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.” Who acts: Wind, Curdken. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/) / 73 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 73 “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.” **Who acts:** Wind, Curdken · **What happens:** blow, let, chase, hang down, comb, plait · **To what, where:** hat, Curdken, o’er field, crown 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 (Wind, Curdken), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:37:73 # text = “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 gently gently ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 sway sway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 Curdken Curdken PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 o’er o' ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 wold wold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 Till till ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 ruddy ruddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 astray astray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 combed comb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 plaited plait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wind and wind and sway | Curdken's hat | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wind and wind and sway *not said here* | Curdken | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **chase** *in a quote* | infinitive | Curdken *not said here* | o’er field and wold | | | till my locks of ruddy gold | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 4 | **hang down** *in a quote* | gerund | Curdken *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **comb** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | Wind and wind and sway *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» | | 6 | **plait** *in a quote* | participle | Wind and wind and sway *not said here* | | | a crown | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/74/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)