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title: As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doted… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doted on her eldest daughter and at the same time had a horrible aversion for the youngest--she made her eat in the kitchen and work continually. Who acts: people, mother, living. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 5

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As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doted on her eldest daughter and at the same time had a horrible aversion for the youngest--she made her eat in the kitchen and work continually.

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**Who acts:** people, mother, living · **What happens:** love, dote, have, make, eat · **To what, where:** own likeness, horrible aversion, living, kitchen

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mother, living), 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:pg503:38:5
# text = As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doted on her eldest daughter and at the same time had a horrible aversion for the youngest--she made her eat in the kitchen and work continually.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	doted	dote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	aversion	aversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | people | people's own likeness |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dote** | past | this mother |  |  |  |  | on mother's eldest daughter | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | this mother *not said here* | a horrible aversion |  |  | time | for the youngest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aversion=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | mother | living |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive | living *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen and work |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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