The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 3

The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was right in her mother’s eyes; but the poor step-daughter had a hard time.

Who acts: daughter, woman, whatever, poor step daughter · What happens: have, do, be · To what, where: own way, everything, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, woman, whatever, poor step daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:2524): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 right	cc
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 right	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whatever	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eyes	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mother	case
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 right	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 daughter	amod
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 step	punct
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the daughter	woman's own way	everything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	do	past	woman					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	whatever		woman's mother's eyes		right property	tree rules
4	have	past	the poor step daughter			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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