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title: But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 6

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:82:6
# text = But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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