The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 44
But no sooner did they touch the clerk than they stuck on too, and so there were seven of them running after Dullhead and his goose.
Who acts: girls, seven · What happens: touch, stick on, be, run · To what, where: clerk
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 (girls, seven), 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 | _ | 6 touch | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 touch | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clerk | det |
| 8 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stuck | compound:prt |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 stuck | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 were | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 were | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 were | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 running | advcl |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 running | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seven | nmod |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 touch | advcl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 Dullhead | case |
| 24 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 running | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 goose | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 goose | nmod:poss |
| 27 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Dullhead | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · do-support | girls = girl | the clerk | soon property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clerk=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | stick on | past | girls = girl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | seven of girls not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | seven of girls | after Dullhead and Dullhead's goose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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