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title: Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a go… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 22

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Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold.

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**Who acts:** Dummling, tree, goose · **What happens:** go, cut down, fall, be, sit · **To what, where:** tree, roots

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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.

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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:pg2591:48:22
# text = Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold.
1	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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