Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 124

This new wife had two daughters of her own: they were fair in face but foul at heart, and it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl. "

Who acts: new wife, daughters, sun · What happens: have, be · To what, where: two daughters, face, sorry time

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 (new wife, daughters, sun), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wife	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughters	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 fair	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fair	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 face	case
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	obl
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 foul	cc
17	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 face	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 heart	case
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foul	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 time	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 time	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	cop
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 time	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 girl	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 girl	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	this new wife	two daughters of wife's own				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	daughters = daughter		face but foul at heart		fair property	tree rules
3	is a	past	sun	a sorry time		now	for the poor little girl	tree rules

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: «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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