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title: Now Lizina was not happy at home, for her mother, who was a widow, w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Lizina was not happy at home, for her mother, who was a widow, was much fonder of her elder daughter; so that often the younger one fared very badly, and had not enough to eat, while the elder could have everything she desired, and if Lizina dared to complain she was certain to have a good beati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 9

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Now Lizina was not happy at home, for her mother, who was a widow, was much fonder of her elder daughter; so that often the younger one fared very badly, and had not enough to eat, while the elder could have everything she desired, and if Lizina dared to complain she was certain to have a good beating.

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**Who acts:** Lizina, mother, younger one, elder · **What happens:** not be, be, fare, eat, have, desire · **To what, where:** home, widow, everything, good beating · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lizina, mother, younger one, elder), 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:pg2435:36:9
# text = Now Lizina was not happy at home, for her mother, who was a widow, was much fonder of her elder daughter; so that often the younger one fared very badly, and had not enough to eat, while the elder could have everything she desired, and if Lizina dared to complain she was certain to have a good beating.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fonder	fond	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	fixed	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
48	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	47	obj	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
60	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	ccomp	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Lizina |  |  | home | now | for Lizina's mother and a widow; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Lizina's mother and a widow | a widow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Lizina's elder daughter; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fare** | past | the younger one |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the younger one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | could | the elder | everything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 7 | **desire** | past | elder |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **dare** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Lizina |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Lizina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | past | Lizina |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **have** | to-infinitive | Lizina *not said here* | a good beating |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=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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