--- title: When her stepmother heard of her good fortune she came to the palace… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When her stepmother heard of her good fortune she came to the palace with her daughter by way of paying a call, and took up her abode there. Who acts: stepmother, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, way), 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:pg540:37:76 # text = When her stepmother heard of her good fortune she came to the palace with her daughter by way of paying a call, and took up her abode there. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 of of SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Queen's stepmother | | | | | of Queen's good fortune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | past | stepmother | | | the palace with Queen's daughter | | by way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **pay** | gerund | way *not said here* | a call | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset | | 4 | **take up** | past | stepmother *not said here* | Queen's abode | | there | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/77/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/)