The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 18
She was as jealous as she could possibly be, because the girl was so beautiful and charming, while her own daughter was both ugly and repulsive.
Who acts: woman, girl, own daughter · What happens: be, charm
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (woman, girl, own daughter), 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 | 4 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 jealous | advmod |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 be | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 be | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 8 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 be | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jealous | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jealous | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 charming | cc |
| 18 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 beautiful | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ugly | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 ugly | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughter | amod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ugly | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ugly | cop |
| 25 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 ugly | cc:preconj |
| 26 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jealous | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 repulsive | cc |
| 28 | repulsive | repulsive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ugly | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the girl | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | charm | gerund | the girl not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | woman's own daughter | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | woman's own daughter not said here | 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 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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