The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 3
Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens, and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her.
Who acts: husband, first wife, wife · What happens: have, be, win, know · To what, where: daughter, heart, wife
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, first wife, wife), 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 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 wife | amod |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 maidens | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 maidens | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maidens | amod |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gentle | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gentle | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 gentle | advmod |
| 21 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 good | cc |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gentle | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 won | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 won | nsubj |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gentle | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heart | det |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 won | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 heart | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 all | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wife's husband | a daughter | by husband's first wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | husband's first wife | than all other maidens; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | past | wife | the heart of all | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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