Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 4

Now the old woman spoiled her own daughter, but was always snapping at the old man's daughter.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: spoil, snap · To what, where: own daughter

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 spoiled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoiled	nsubj
5	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoiled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snapping	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 snapping	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snapping	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 snapping	advmod
13	snapping	snap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spoiled	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	19 daughter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snapping	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	past	the old woman	woman's own daughter			now		tree rules
2	snap	past · progressive	the old woman not said here					at the old man's daughter; always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daughter=Location

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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