Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 22
Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold.
Who acts: Dummling, tree, goose · What happens: go, cut down, fall, be, sit · To what, where: tree, roots
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (Dummling, tree, 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 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cut | cc |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 fell | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 goose | det |
| 16 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 goose | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 roots | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roots | det |
| 20 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sitting | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 feathers | case |
| 22 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sitting | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 24 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gold | amod |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feathers | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dummling | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cut down | participle | Dummling not said here | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | tree | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a goose | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | a goose not said here | the roots | with feathers of pure gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in root=Location |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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