Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 56

The step-mother was now still more vexed, and was always thinking how she could do the most harm to her husband's daughter, who every day became more beautiful.

Who acts: step mother, mother, daughter · What happens: be, think, do, become · To what, where: most harm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (step mother, mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 step	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vexed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vexed	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 vexed	advmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 vexed	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 vexed	advmod
9	vexed	vexed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thinking	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thinking	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 thinking	advmod
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 vexed	advcl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 do	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thinking	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 harm	det
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 harm	amod
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 husband	case
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 became	nsubj
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 daughter	conj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the step mother		now; still	vexed property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	the step mother not said here			always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	could	mother	the most harm		to mother's husband's daughter	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
4	become	past	mother's husband's daughter			beautiful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «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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