Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 31
But the moment she touched her sisters she stuck fast, and hung to the goose as they did.
Who acts: moment, last, feathers · What happens: touch, stick, hang, do · To what, where: sisters
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 (moment, last, feathers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 touched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stuck | nsubj |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hung | cc |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 goose | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goose | det |
| 16 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hung | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the moment | last's sisters | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | last | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the moment not said here | to the goose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past | feathers = feather | vn act-114-1 «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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