Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 24

The landlord had three daughters, and when they saw the goose, they were very curious to find out what this wonderful bird could be, and wished very much to pluck one of the feathers out of its tail.

Who acts: landlord, daughters · What happens: have, see, be, find out, wish, pluck · To what, where: three daughters, goose, one, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (landlord, daughters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goose	det
12	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 curious	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 curious	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 curious	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 curious	advmod
17	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saw	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 curious	csubj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 find	compound:prt
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 find	obj
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 bird	det
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bird	amod
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 be	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 be	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 what	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wished	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wished	cc
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	33 pluck	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 pluck	mark
33	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	ccomp
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pluck	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 feathers	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 feathers	det
37	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 tail	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 tail	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tail	nmod:poss
41	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pluck	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the landlord	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	see	past	daughters = daughter	the goose			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus
3	is	past	daughters = daughter			curious property	tree rules
4	find out	to-infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	wish	past	the landlord not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	pluck not said to happen	to-infinitive		one of the feathers	bird's tail		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme out tail=Source

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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