The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 62
Then the stepmother was more furious than ever, and did nothing but plot mischief against the man’s daughter, who was daily growing more and more beautiful.
Who acts: stepmother, daughter · What happens: be, do, plot, grow · To what, where: nothing, mischief
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 (stepmother, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 furious | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furious | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 furious | advmod |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 furious | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furious | parataxis |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 did | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 plot | cc |
| 14 | plot | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 15 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plot | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 daughter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 man | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plot | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daily | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 daily | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 daily | cop |
| 24 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 daily | advcl |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 growing | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 beautiful | cc |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 beautiful | advmod |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 more | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother | then | furious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | plot | present | mischief | against the man's daughter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the man's daughter | daily property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | the man's daughter not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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