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title: For some days the mother and her two daughters lived very happily to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some days the mother and her two daughters lived very happily together, for Lizina had given them everything she had brought away except her golden clothing, for that would not come off, in spite of all the efforts of her sister, who was madly jealous of her good fortune. Who acts: mother, Lizin
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 44

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For some days the mother and her two daughters lived very happily together, for Lizina had given them everything she had brought away except her golden clothing, for that would not come off, in spite of all the efforts of her sister, who was madly jealous of her good fortune.

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**Who acts:** mother, Lizina, that, sister · **What happens:** live, give, bring away, not come off, be, spite · **To what, where:** Lizina, spite, efforts

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Lizina, that, sister), 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:pg2435:36:44
# text = For some days the mother and her two daughters lived very happily together, for Lizina had given them everything she had brought away except her golden clothing, for that would not come off, in spite of all the efforts of her sister, who was madly jealous of her good fortune.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	except	except	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the mother and donkey's two daughters |  |  |  | day | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Lizina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring away** | past · perfect | Lizina |  |  |  |  | except Lizina's golden clothing; away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **come off** | would | that |  |  | spite of all efforts of Lizina's sister |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | Lizina's sister |  |  |  |  | of Lizina's good fortune; jealous, madly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | all efforts of Lizina's sister |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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