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title: But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother’s temper nor her father’s spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful. Who acts: Master, spoiling, mother, temper. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 26

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But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother’s temper nor her father’s spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Master, spoiling, mother, temper · **What happens:** have, keep, grow up, temper, spoil · **To what, where:** little daughter, temper

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, spoiling, mother, temper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:16:26
# text = But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother’s temper nor her father’s spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
19	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
28	spoiling	spoiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Master | a little daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | could | wife's mother's temper nor temper's father's spoiling | temper |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **grow up** | gerund | wife's mother's temper nor temper's father's spoiling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **temper** |  | wife's mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **spoil** |  | wife's mother's temper nor temper's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoiling «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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