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title: But as the ugly one was her own daughter, she liked her far the best… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the ugly one was her own daughter, she liked her far the best of the two, and the pretty one had to do all the work of the house, and was in fact the regular maid of all work. Who acts: ugly one, widow, pretty one, house. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 2

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But as the ugly one was her own daughter, she liked her far the best of the two, and the pretty one had to do all the work of the house, and was in fact the regular maid of all work.

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**Who acts:** ugly one, widow, pretty one, house · **What happens:** be, like, have, do, work · **To what, where:** own daughter, best, work, fact

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (ugly one, widow, pretty one, house), 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:pg540:44:2
# text = But as the ugly one was her own daughter, she liked her far the best of the two, and the pretty one had to do all the work of the house, and was in fact the regular maid of all work.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the ugly one | widow's own daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | past | widow | the best of the two |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the pretty one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the pretty one *not said here* | all work of the house |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | fact |  | the regular maid of all work *nmod* | tree rules |
| 6 | **work** |  | the house |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 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.

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