Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 2
The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.
Who acts: mother, own daughter, house · What happens: love, be, make, do, work · To what, where: ugly one, own daughter, stepdaughter, work, Cinderella
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, own daughter, house), 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 | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mother | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 loved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lazy | cc |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ugly | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 loved | obj |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daughter | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 daughter | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 daughter | cop |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loved | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 other | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 other | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 other | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stepdaughter | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 stepdaughter | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stepdaughter | cop |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 stepdaughter | advmod |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 made | aux:pass |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 loved | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | xcomp |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 work | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 work | det |
| 38 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 house | det |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 work | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Cinderella | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Cinderella | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 Cinderella | cop |
| 45 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 Cinderella | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Cinderella | det |
| 47 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 made | parataxis |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 family | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 family | det |
| 50 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Cinderella | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the mother | the ugly one best | however property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | mother | mother's own daughter and mother's stepdaughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | mother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | mother's own daughter and mother's stepdaughter | mother's stepdaughter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | the mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | all work of the house | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | quite Cinderella | of the family | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | work | the house | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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