The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 56

Her stepmother asked her how it had come about that she had grown so beautiful.

Who acts: stepmother, world · What happens: ask, come, grow · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stepmother, world), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepmother	nmod:poss
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 asked	ccomp
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 grown	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 grown	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grown	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grown	aux
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 come	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 beautiful	advmod
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grown	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	world's stepmother	world		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	stepmother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	world		beautiful property	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 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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