The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 28

But, lo and behold! her fingers seemed to stick fast to the goose, and she could not take her hand away.

Who acts: fingers, landlord · What happens: seem, stick, not take away · To what, where: hand

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (fingers, landlord), 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	_	9 seemed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lo	punct
3	lo	lo	INTJ	_	9 seemed	discourse
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 behold	cc
5	behold	behold	INTJ	_	3 lo	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 lo	punct
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stick	mark
11	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 stick	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 goose	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 goose	det
15	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 take	advmod
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	landlord's fingers			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	stick	to-infinitive	landlord's fingers not said here		to the goose; fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not take away	could	landlord	landlord's hand	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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.

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