Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 50

This new wife had two daughters of her own, that she brought home with her; 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, wife, eyes, sun · What happens: have, bring, be · To what, where: two daughters, face, sorry time

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. 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, wife, eyes, 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 brought	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 brought	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	nsubj
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fair	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fair	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fair	cop
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 face	case
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fair	obl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 foul	cc
24	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 heart	case
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foul	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 time	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 time	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 time	cop
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 time	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 time	det
33	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 time	amod
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	39 girl	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 girl	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 girl	amod
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 girl	amod
39	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	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	bring	past	wife				with snow; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	eyes = eye		face but foul at heart		fair property	tree rules
4	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: «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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