The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 34

Next morning Dullhead tucked the goose under his arm and went off, without in the least troubling himself about the three girls who were hanging on to it.

Who acts: Dullhead, three girls · What happens: tuck, go off, trouble, hang on · To what, where: goose, arm, Dullhead

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, three girls), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	obl:unmarked
3	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	nsubj
4	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goose	det
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tucked	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 troubling	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 troubling	mark
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 troubling	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 least	det
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 troubling	advmod
18	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 troubling	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	23 girls	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girls	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 girls	nummod
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 troubling	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hanging	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hanging	aux
26	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 girls	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 hanging	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hanging	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	past	Dullhead	the goose		Dullhead's arm	morning		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent goose=Theme under arm=Trajectory
2	go off	past	Dullhead not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	trouble	gerund	Dullhead not said here	Dullhead				about the three girls	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	hang on	past · progressive	the three girls		arm				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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