The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 2

She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humor, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things.

Who acts: woman, own humor · What happens: have, be, humor · To what, where: former husband

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, own humor), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 husband	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 husband	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 husband	det
6	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 husband	amod
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughters	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 daughters	nummod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 husband	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 humor	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 humor	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 humor	amod
14	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughters	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 indeed	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 indeed	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 indeed	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 indeed	punct
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 humor	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 her	punct
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	23 her	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 indeed	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 things	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 things	det
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 her	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	woman	a former husband		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
2	is	past	woman's own humor		indeed property	tree rules
3	humor		woman			nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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