The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 2

But as the ugly one was her own daughter, she liked her far the best of the two, and the pretty one had to do all the work of the house, and was in fact the regular maid of all work.

Who acts: ugly one, widow, pretty one, house · What happens: be, like, have, do, work · To what, where: own daughter, best, work, fact

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (ugly one, widow, pretty one, house), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 liked	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 daughter	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 daughter	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 liked	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 daughter	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 best	nsubj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 best	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 best	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 liked	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 two	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 two	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 best	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 liked	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 work	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 work	det
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 work	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fact	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fact	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fact	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 fact	case
38	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 liked	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 maid	det
40	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 maid	amod
41	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fact	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 work	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 work	det
44	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 maid	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ugly one	widow's own daughter			tree rules
2	like	past	widow	the best of the two			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
3	have	past	the pretty one				tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the pretty one not said here	all work of the house			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	is	past			fact	the regular maid of all work nmod	tree rules
6	work		the house				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 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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