The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 4

His second wife, however, had also a grown-up daughter, who by herself would have been ugly and disagreeable enough, but beside her good and beautiful stepsister seemed still more ugly and wicked, so that all turned from her with loathing.

Who acts: second wife, grown daughter · What happens: have, grow up, be, seem, turn · To what, where: grown daughter, good stepsister

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 (second wife, grown daughter), 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	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	also	also	ADV	_	13 daughter	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 daughter	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 grown	compound:prt
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ugly	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ugly	nsubj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 who	obl
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ugly	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ugly	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ugly	cop
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughter	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 disagreeable	cc
23	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ugly	conj
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 disagreeable	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	32 stepsister	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stepsister	nmod:poss
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stepsister	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beautiful	cc
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	conj
32	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 ugly	advmod
36	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seemed	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wicked	cc
38	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ugly	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 turned	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	43 turned	advmod
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 turned	mark
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 turned	advmod
43	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seemed	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 turned	obl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 loathing	case
47	loathing	loathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turned	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	husband's second wife	a grown daughter		however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would · perfect	a grown daughter			ugly property	tree rules
4	be		a grown daughter not said here			enough property	tree rules
5	seem	past			wife's good stepsister	ugly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	turn	past				from wife; with loathing	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from she=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 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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