The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 4
The stepmother and her daughter were envious of the King’s daughter because she was so pretty, but so long as the King was at home they dared do her no harm, because his love for her was so great.
Who acts: stepmother, daughter, King, love · What happens: be, dare, do, harm, love · To what, where: home, harm
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, daughter, King, love), 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 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envious | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 daughter | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepmother | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 envious | cop |
| 7 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envious | obl |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 pretty | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pretty | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pretty | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pretty | advmod |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 7 envious | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 long | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 do | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 home | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 home | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 long | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dared | nsubj |
| 29 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 home | acl:relcl |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 envious | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 harm | nmod:poss |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 harm | det |
| 33 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 do | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 great | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 42 great | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 love | nmod:poss |
| 37 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 great | nsubj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 love | nmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 great | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 great | advmod |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 envious | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 envious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother and daughter's daughter | of the King's daughter; envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | daughter | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | as home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dare | past | stepmother | home not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | do | present | the stepmother and daughter's daughter not said here | daughter's harm | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | is | past | King's love for daughter | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | harm | daughter | nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | love | King | for daughter | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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