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title: But, lo and behold! her fingers seemed to stick fast to the goose, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, lo and behold! her fingers seemed to stick fast to the goose, and she could not take her hand away. Who acts: fingers, landlord. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 28

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But, lo and behold! her fingers seemed to stick fast to the goose, and she could not take her hand away.

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**Who acts:** fingers, landlord · **What happens:** seem, stick, not take away · **To what, where:** hand

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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 (fingers, landlord), 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:pg540:48:28
# text = But, lo and behold! her fingers seemed to stick fast to the goose, and she could not take her hand away.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | landlord's fingers |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **stick** | to-infinitive | landlord's fingers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the goose; fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **take away** | could | landlord | landlord's hand |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:** «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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