--- title: When Dullhead heard this he marched before the Princess with his goo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When Dullhead heard this he marched before the Princess with his goose and its appendages, and as soon as she saw these seven people continually running after each other she burst out laughing, and could not stop herself. Who acts: Dullhead, seven. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, seven), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:48:47 # text = When Dullhead heard this he marched before the Princess with his goose and its appendages, and as soon as she saw these seven people continually running after each other she burst out laughing, and could not stop herself. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Dullhead Dullhead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 appendages appendage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 continually continually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 ccomp _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 27 obl _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 fixed _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 40 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Dullhead | this | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **march** | past | Dullhead | | | | before the Princess with Dullhead's goose and laugh's appendages | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** | past | seven | this seven people | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | gerund | | | | | after each | continually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **burst out** | past | seven | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | seven *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **stop** | could | Dullhead *not said here* | seven | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality herself=Eventuality | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/48/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)