--- title: As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his head, the village girls used to cry after him, ‘Well, Star Gazer, what are you doing?’ and Michael would answer, ‘Oh, nothing,’ and go on his way without even turning to look at them. Who acts: boy, hair, village girls, Star. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hair, village girls, Star), 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:pg540:2:4 # text = As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his head, the village girls used to cry after him, ‘Well, Star Gazer, what are you doing?’ and Michael would answer, ‘Oh, nothing,’ and go on his way without even turning to look at them. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 curled curl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Well well INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 Gazer Gazer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 obj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 49 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 49 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 54 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 57 without without SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 58 even even ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 53 advcl _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 at at ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | boy | a white skin and blue eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **curl** | past | hair | | | boy's head | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination | | 3 | **use** | past | the village girls | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the village girls *not said here* | | | | after boy | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | present · progressive | Star | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | Michael | nothing | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | Michael *not said here* | | | boy's way | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | | 8 | **turn** | gerund | Michael *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **look** | to-infinitive | Michael *not said here* | | | | | at girls *= girl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/5/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)