Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 27

Presently in came the second sister, and thought to have a feather too; but the instant she touched her sister, there she too hung fast.

Who acts: second sister, instant, sister · What happens: come, think, have, touch, hang · To what, where: feather, sister

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second sister, instant, sister), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 came	case
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 feather	det
13	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 touched	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 touched	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 instant	det
18	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touched	nsubj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touched	nsubj
20	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sister	nmod:poss
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touched	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 hung	expl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hung	nsubj
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 hung	advmod
27	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hung	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the second sister			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the second sister not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	the second sister not said here	a feather			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
4	touch	past	the instant	instant's sister			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme
5	hang	past	sister		there	fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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