The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 5

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open.

Who acts: Countryman, idea · What happens: finish, count, come, get, kill, cut · To what, where: money, Countryman, golden eggs, Goose, egg

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countryman, idea), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 finished	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 finished	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finished	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	aux
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 finished	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 money	nmod:poss
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 counting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 idea	det
14	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 money	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 get	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 eggs	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eggs	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eggs	amod
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 get	obl
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 killing	mark
29	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 get	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Goose	det
31	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 killing	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cutting	cc
33	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 killing	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cutting	obj
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cutting	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Countryman			then; day		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	count	gerund	Countryman not said here	Countryman's money				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	come	past	the idea		Countryman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	get	could	Countryman	all golden eggs				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent egg=Theme at once=Asset
5	kill	gerund	Countryman not said here	the Goose				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
6	cut	gerund	Countryman not said here	egg			open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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