The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 21

So when the man’s daughter went home, looking as beautiful and bright as day, the step-mother and her daughter grew much more ill-tempered, and it was worse still when she began to talk, and they saw that golden coins dropped from her mouth.

Who acts: daughter, step mother, Gold, head, horses, golden coins · What happens: go, look, grow, temper, be, begin · To what, where: mouth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, step mother, Gold, head), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 man	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 grew	advcl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 beautiful	case
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looking	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bright	cc
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beautiful	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 day	case
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bright	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mother	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 daughter	cc
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	conj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 ill	advmod
28	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tempered	advcl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 ill	punct
30	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 grew	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 worse	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 worse	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 worse	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 worse	cop
35	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 grew	conj
36	still	still	ADV	_	39 began	advmod
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 began	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 began	nsubj
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grew	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 talk	mark
41	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 saw	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 saw	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 saw	nsubj
45	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 dropped	mark
47	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 coins	amod
48	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 dropped	nsubj
49	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 saw	advcl
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 mouth	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 mouth	nmod:poss
52	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dropped	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man's daughter			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the step mother and mother's daughter not said here			as beautiful	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	grow	past	the step mother and mother's daughter				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	temper	participle					tree rules
5	is	past	Gold			bad property	tree rules
6	begin	past	head		still		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	talk	to-infinitive	head not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	see	past	horses = horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	drop	past	golden coins	head's mouth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory

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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