Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 13
She was envious, too, because her step-daughter was beautiful and lovely, and her own daughter was ugly and hateful.
Who acts: woman, step daughter, own daughter · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, step daughter, own daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 envious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 envious | cop |
| 3 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 envious | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 beautiful | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 step | punct |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 envious | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lovely | cc |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beautiful | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ugly | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ugly | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughter | amod |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ugly | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ugly | cop |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 envious | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hateful | cc |
| 24 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ugly | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 envious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | woman's step daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | woman's step daughter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | woman's own daughter | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | woman's own daughter not said here | 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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