The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 6

But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Who acts: single golden egg, precious Goose · What happens: do, not find, be · To what, where: deed

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 (single golden egg, precious Goose), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 done	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 done	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deed	det
4	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 egg	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 egg	amod
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 egg	amod
12	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dead	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Goose	nmod:poss
19	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Goose	amod
20	Goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the deed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not find	past · do-support	a single golden egg			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Countryman's precious Goose		dead property	tree rules

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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