The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 32

So she sprang to them; but no sooner had she touched one of them than she stuck fast to her.

Who acts: sister · What happens: spring, touch, stick · To what, where: daughters, one, landlord

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 touched	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 touched	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 sooner	det
9	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 touched	advmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touched	nsubj
12	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 touched	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 stuck	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuck	nsubj
18	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	advcl
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 stuck	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stuck	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spring	past	sister		daughters = daughter		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination
2	touch	past	sister	one of daughters		soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
3	stick	past	sister		landlord	fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Patient

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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