The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 40

But directly he touched her he hung on himself, and had to run along with the rest of them.

Who acts: other two · What happens: touch, hang, have, run along · To what, where: 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 (other two), 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	_	7 hung	cc
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 touched	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hung	nsubj
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 hung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 run	mark
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rest	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	other two = two	landlord	directly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
2	hang	past	other two = two		on other two = two	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on himself=Location
3	have	past	other two = two not said here			tree rules
4	run along	to-infinitive	other two = two not said here		with the rest of girls; along property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with rest=Material

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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