Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 24

Now the host had three daughters, who saw the goose and were curious to know what such a wonderful bird might be, and would have liked to have one of its golden feathers.

Who acts: host, three daughters, wonderful bird · What happens: have, see, be, know, like · To what, where: three daughters, goose, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (host, three daughters, wonderful bird), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 host	det
3	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughters	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goose	det
11	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 curious	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 curious	cop
14	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 curious	csubj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 be	obj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 bird	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 be	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 be	aux
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 liked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 liked	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 liked	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 liked	aux
28	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 had	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 liked	xcomp
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 have	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 feathers	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feathers	nmod:poss
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feathers	amod
35	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the host	three daughters	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	see	past	three daughters	the goose			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus
3	is	past	three daughters not said here			curious property	tree rules
4	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	might	such wonderful bird				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6	like	would · perfect	the host not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the host not said here	one of bird's golden feathers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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: «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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