--- title: Then a gust of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat away, so that he had… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then a gust of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat away, so that he had to fly over hill and dale after it, and the girl in the meantime quietly combed and plaited her hair: all this the old King observed, and returned to the palace without anyone having noticed him. Who acts: gust, Curdken, girl, old --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 74 Then a gust of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat away, so that he had to fly over hill and dale after it, and the girl in the meantime quietly combed and plaited her hair: all this the old King observed, and returned to the palace without anyone having noticed him. **Who acts:** gust, Curdken, girl, old King · **What happens:** come, blow, have, fly, comb, plait · **To what, where:** hat, hill, hair, Curdken 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, Curdken, girl, old King), 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:pg503:37:74 # text = Then a gust of wind came and blew Curdken’s hat away, so that he had to fly over hill and dale after it, and the girl in the meantime quietly combed and plaited her hair: all this the old King observed, and returned to the palace without anyone having noticed him. 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 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 Curdken Curdken PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 dale dale NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 combed comb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 plaited plait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 41 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 without without ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 48 obl _ _ 54 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 53 acl _ _ 55 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 advcl _ _ 56 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | a gust of wind | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **blow** | past | a gust of wind *not said here* | Curdken's hat | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient | | 3 | **have** | past | Curdken | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Curdken *not said here* | | | hill and dale | after hat | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location | | 5 | **comb** | past | the girl in the meantime | | | | | quietly *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **plait** | past | the girl in the meantime *not said here* | girl's hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 7 | **observe** | past | the old King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **return** | past | a gust of wind *not said here* | | | | | to the palace *result*; without anyone | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | | 9 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **notice** | past | | Curdken | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/75/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/)