The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 37

His new wife had an only daughter, who was both ugly and untidy, whereas her stepdaughter was a beautiful girl, and was known as Maiden Bright-eye.

Who acts: new wife, only daughter, stepdaughter · What happens: have, be, know · To what, where: only daughter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new wife, only daughter, stepdaughter), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ugly	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ugly	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ugly	cop
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 ugly	cc:preconj
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 untidy	cc
14	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ugly	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 girl	punct
16	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	22 girl	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
18	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 girl	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 girl	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 girl	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girl	amod
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 known	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux:pass
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 Maiden	case
28	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 known	obl
29	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Maiden	flat
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 eye	punct
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Maiden	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Maiden's new wife	a only daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	a only daughter		ugly property	tree rules
3	be		a only daughter not said here			tree rules
4	is	past	wife's stepdaughter		whereas a beautiful girl	tree rules
5	know	past · passive	Maiden's new wife not said here		as Maiden	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as maiden=Attribute

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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