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title: Next morning Dullhead tucked the goose under his arm and went off, w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 34

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:48:34
# text = 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.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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