English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 4

Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: yellow dowdy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dowdy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dowdy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dowdy	det
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dowdy	amod
6	dowdy	dowdy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dowdy	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 envy	case
10	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nature	cc
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nature	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 envy	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 much	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 much	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 short	case
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 much	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 much	cop
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dowdy	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 mould	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mould	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mould	amod
26	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 much	nmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 much	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dowdy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hearing's daughter	a yellow dowdy					tree rules
2	is	past						of the same mould; as hearing's mother; much 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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