The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 3

He had likewise, by another wife, a young daughter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Who acts: husband, unparalleled goodness, mother · What happens: have, take, be · To what, where: best creature, world

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 (husband, unparalleled goodness, mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daughter	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 goodness	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 goodness	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 goodness	case
15	unparalleled	unparalleled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goodness	amod
16	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sweetness	cc
18	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goodness	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 temper	case
20	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sweetness	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 took	nsubj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 goodness	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 creature	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 creature	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 creature	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 creature	det
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 creature	amod
33	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mother	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 creature	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	husband			likewise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper			from wife's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from mother=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	wife's mother	the best creature	the world		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: «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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