The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 27
The eldest thought to herself: ‘No doubt I shall soon find a good opportunity to pluck out one of its feathers,’ and the first time Dullhead happened to leave the room she caught hold of the goose by its wing.
Who acts: doubt, first time, landlord · What happens: think, find, pluck out, happen, leave, catch · To what, where: eldest, landlord, good opportunity, one, room, hold
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 (doubt, first time, landlord), 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 | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 8 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 doubt | det |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 opportunity | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 opportunity | amod |
| 16 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pluck | mark |
| 18 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 opportunity | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pluck | compound:prt |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pluck | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 feathers | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 happened | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 happened | nsubj |
| 30 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 time | appos |
| 31 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 leave | mark |
| 33 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 happened | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 room | det |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leave | obj |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 caught | nsubj |
| 37 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 room | acl:relcl |
| 38 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 caught | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 goose | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 goose | det |
| 41 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hold | nmod |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 wing | case |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 wing | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 caught | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | eldest | landlord | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | shall | no doubt | a good opportunity | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | |||
| 3 | pluck out | to-infinitive | no doubt not said here | one of doubt's feathers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | the first time | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | the first time not said here | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 6 | catch | past | landlord | hold of the goose | by doubt's wing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 7 | hold | the goose | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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