The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 5
The stepmother had long been annoyed that her husband’s daughter was so much more beautiful than her own, and in her heart she conceived a bitter hatred for her stepdaughter.
Who acts: stepmother, daughter · What happens: be, conceive · To what, where: bitter hatred, heart
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 (stepmother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 annoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 annoyed | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 annoyed | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 annoyed | cop |
| 6 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 annoyed | advcl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 conceived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 conceived | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 conceived | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 conceived | nsubj |
| 26 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 annoyed | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hatred | det |
| 28 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hatred | amod |
| 29 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 conceived | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 stepdaughter | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 conceived | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the stepmother | annoyed, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stepmother's husband's daughter | than stepmother's own; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conceive | past | stepmother | a bitter hatred | stepmother's heart | for stepmother's stepdaughter | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=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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