The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 24

Then Dullhead fell to at once to hew down the tree, and when it fell he found amongst its roots a goose, whose feathers were all of pure gold.

Who acts: Dullhead, tree · What happens: fall, hew down, find · To what, where: tree

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 (Dullhead, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 fell	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fell	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hew	mark
8	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 hew	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fell	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	conj
19	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	21 roots	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 roots	nmod:poss
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 found	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 goose	det
23	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feathers	punct
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 feathers	nmod:poss
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 goose	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 all	cop
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 roots	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
30	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gold	amod
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Dullhead		then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	hew down	to-infinitive	Dullhead not said here	the tree			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	fall	past	tree				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	Dullhead			amongst tree's roots	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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: «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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