Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 22

Dummerly set to work, and cut down the tree; and when it fell, he discovered in a hollow under the roots a goose with plumage of pure gold.

Who acts: Dummerly, tree · What happens: set, work, cut down, fall, discover · To what, where: tree, hollow

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (Dummerly, tree), 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	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cut	cc
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 set	parataxis
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 discovered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 discovered	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 discovered	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 discovered	nsubj
18	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hollow	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hollow	det
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 discovered	obl
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 roots	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 roots	det
24	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 discovered	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 goose	det
26	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roots	appos
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 plumage	case
28	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goose	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
30	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gold	amod
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plumage	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	Dummerly				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Dummerly not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut down	participle		the tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
4	fall	past	tree				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	discover	past	Dummerly		a hollow	under the roots	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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