The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 1

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

Who acts: Countryman, you, Goose · What happens: be, possess, imagine, visit, lay, glitter · To what, where: wonderful Goose, nest, Countryman, golden egg

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 (Countryman, you, Goose), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Countryman	det
5	Countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 possessed	nsubj
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Countryman	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Goose	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 wonderful	advmod
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Goose	amod
11	Goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 imagine	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 imagine	aux
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Goose	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obl:unmarked
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 visited	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 visited	nsubj
21	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 day	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nest	det
23	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 visited	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Goose	det
26	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 laid	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 laid	aux
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 Countryman	acl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beautiful	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 laid	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glittering	punct
32	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 laid	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 egg	punct
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 egg	amod
35	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glittering	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Countryman		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	possess	past	a Countryman	the wonderful Goose		day		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goose=Theme
3	imagine	can	you	the wonderful Goose not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goose=Theme
4	visit	past	Countryman	the nest				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Co-Agent
5	lay	past · perfect	the Goose	a Countryman not said here			beautiful property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryman=Result
6	glitter	gerund	the Goose not said here	golden egg				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 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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