The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 29

Soon after the second daughter came in, and thought to pluck a golden feather for herself too; but hardly had she touched her sister than she stuck fast as well.

Who acts: second daughter, landlord · What happens: come in, think, pluck, have, touch, stick · To what, where: golden feather, sister

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 (second daughter, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 daughter	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pluck	mark
12	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 feather	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feather	amod
15	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pluck	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 pluck	obl
18	too	too	ADV	_	12 pluck	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 touched	nsubj
24	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	ccomp
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touched	iobj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 stuck	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stuck	nsubj
29	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 touched	advcl
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 stuck	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	29 stuck	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the second daughter			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the second daughter not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pluck	to-infinitive	the second daughter not said here	a golden feather		for landlord	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feather=Theme for herself=Beneficiary
4	have	past	the second daughter not said here			hardly property	tree rules
5	touch	past	landlord		landlord's sister		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme
6	stick	past	landlord			fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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: «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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