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title: The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she had scarcely touched her sister than she was held fast. Who acts: second, goose. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 26

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The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she had scarcely touched her sister than she was held fast.

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**Who acts:** second, goose · **What happens:** come, think, get, touch, hold · **To what, where:** feather, sister, goose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 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, goose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:48:26
# text = The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she had scarcely touched her sister than she was held fast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the second |  |  |  |  | afterwards, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the second *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | might | goose | a feather |  |  |  | for goose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme for herself=Source |
| 4 | **touch** | past · perfect | goose |  | goose's sister |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sister=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | past · passive |  | goose |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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