English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 2

And her stepmother hated her because she was more beautiful than herself, and she was very cruel to her.

Who acts: stepmother, mother · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: mother, stepmother

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 hated	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 stepmother	nmod:poss
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 beautiful	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beautiful	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beautiful	cop
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hated	advcl
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 beautiful	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cruel	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cruel	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cruel	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cruel	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 cruel	advmod
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hated	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cruel	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	mother's stepmother	mother			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	past	mother			than mother; beautiful property	tree rules
3	is	past	mother		stepmother	cruel property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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