--- title: Her own daughter, who was as ugly as night, and had but one eye, for… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Her own daughter, who was as ugly as night, and had but one eye, for which she was continually reproached, said, "The luck of being a Queen has never happened to me." " Who acts: own daughter, luck. 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" **Who acts:** own daughter, luck · **What happens:** be, have, reproach, say, not happen · **To what, where:** one eye, Sister, own daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own daughter, luck), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:7:52 # text = Her own daughter, who was as ugly as night, and had but one eye, for which she was continually reproached, said, "The luck of being a Queen has never happened to me." " 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 continually continually ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 reproached reproach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 ccomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Sister's own daughter | | | | night | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | | one eye | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **reproach** | past · passive | | Sister | | | | continually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sister's own daughter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | of a Queen | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the luck | | Sister's own daughter *= daughter* | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/53/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)