--- title: The eldest thought to herself: ‘No doubt I shall soon find a good op… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The eldest thought to herself: ‘No doubt I shall soon find a good opportunity to pluck out one of its feathers,’ and the first time Dullhead happened to leave the room she caught hold of the goose by its wing. Who acts: doubt, first time, landlord. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, first time, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:48:27 # text = The eldest thought to herself: ‘No doubt I shall soon find a good opportunity to pluck out one of its feathers,’ and the first time Dullhead happened to leave the room she caught hold of the goose by its wing. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 Dullhead Dullhead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | participle · passive | | eldest | landlord | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **find** | shall | no doubt | a good opportunity | | | | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | | 3 | **pluck out** | to-infinitive | no doubt *not said here* | one of doubt's feathers | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | past | the first time | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the first time *not said here* | the room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 6 | **catch** | past | landlord | hold of the goose | | | | by doubt's wing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 7 | **hold** | | | the goose | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/28/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)