Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 26

The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she had scarcely touched her sister than she was held fast.

Who acts: second, goose · What happens: come, think, get, touch, hold · To what, where: feather, sister, goose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, goose), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
5	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thinking	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 feather	det
15	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 get	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 touched	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 touched	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touched	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touched	aux
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 touched	advmod
23	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	parataxis
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 touched	iobj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 held	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 held	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 held	aux:pass
29	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 touched	advcl
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 held	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the second			afterwards, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	the second not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get	might	goose	a feather		for goose	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme for herself=Source
4	touch	past · perfect	goose		goose's sister	scarcely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme
5	hold	past · passive		goose		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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