The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 22

There stands an old tree; cut it down, and amongst its roots you’ll find something.’

Who acts: you · What happens: stand, cut down, find · To what, where: old tree, tree, something

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 (you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stands	expl
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stands	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
12	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	14 roots	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roots	nmod:poss
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stands	parataxis
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 find	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present		a old tree	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	cut down	infinitive		tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	find	future	you	something		amongst tree's roots	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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 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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