The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 26

Now the landlord of the inn had three daughters, and when they saw the goose they were filled with curiosity as to what this wonderful bird could be, and each longed to have one of its golden feathers.

Who acts: landlord, daughters · What happens: have, see, fill, be, long · To what, where: three daughters, goose, daughters, one

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 (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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 landlord	det
3	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 inn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inn	det
6	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 landlord	nmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 goose	det
16	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 filled	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 filled	aux:pass
19	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 goose	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 curiosity	case
21	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	obl
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 what	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 filled	obl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 bird	det
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bird	amod
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 be	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 what	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 longed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 longed	cc
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 longed	advmod
33	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 have	mark
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 longed	xcomp
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 have	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 feathers	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feathers	nmod:poss
39	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feathers	amod
40	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the landlord of the inn	three daughters	now		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	fill	past · passive		daughters = daughter		with curiosity	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with curiosity=Instrument
4	is	infinitive				as the goose	tree rules
5	long	past	daughters = daughter not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	one of inn'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: «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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