--- title: The stepmother and her daughter were envious of the King’s daughter… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The stepmother and her daughter were envious of the King’s daughter because she was so pretty, but so long as the King was at home they dared do her no harm, because his love for her was so great. Who acts: stepmother, daughter, King, love. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/) / 4 # The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 4 The stepmother and her daughter were envious of the King’s daughter because she was so pretty, but so long as the King was at home they dared do her no harm, because his love for her was so great. **Who acts:** stepmother, daughter, King, love · **What happens:** be, dare, do, harm, love · **To what, where:** home, harm This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, daughter, King, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:29:4 # text = The stepmother and her daughter were envious of the King’s daughter because she was so pretty, but so long as the King was at home they dared do her no harm, because his love for her was so great. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the stepmother and daughter's daughter | | | | | of the King's daughter; envious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | daughter | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | as home | tree rules | | 4 | **dare** | past | stepmother | home *not said here* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Recipient | | 5 | **do** | present | the stepmother and daughter's daughter *not said here* | daughter's harm | | | | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | past | King's love for daughter | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **harm** | | daughter | | | | | | nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **love** | | King | | | | | for daughter | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/5/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/29/)