--- title: Now the landlord of the inn had three daughters, and when they saw t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/) / 26 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:48:26 # text = 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. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 26 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/27/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)