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title: The landlord had three daughters, and when they saw the goose, they… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goos
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 24

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:15:24
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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