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title: But the sisters, who had always been rather jealous of Helga, were s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sisters, who had always been rather jealous of Helga, were secretly pleased that their bridegrooms should outshine hers. Who acts: sisters, bridegrooms. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 87

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But the sisters, who had always been rather jealous of Helga, were secretly pleased that their bridegrooms should outshine hers.

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**Who acts:** sisters, bridegrooms · **What happens:** be, outshine · **To what, where:** Helga

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, bridegrooms), 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:pg3282:13:87
# text = But the sisters, who had always been rather jealous of Helga, were secretly pleased that their bridegrooms should outshine hers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	outshine	outshine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the sisters |  |  |  |  | of Helga; always, jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sisters |  |  |  |  | pleased, secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **outshine** | should | sisters's bridegrooms | Helga |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot her=Theme |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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