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title: From this hour she hated poor Snowdrop like poison, and every day he… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From this hour she hated poor Snowdrop like poison, and every day her envy, hatred, and malice grew, for envy and jealousy are like evil weeds which spring up and choke the heart. Who acts: Queen, malice, envy, evil weeds. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its depe
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 118

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From this hour she hated poor Snowdrop like poison, and every day her envy, hatred, and malice grew, for envy and jealousy are like evil weeds which spring up and choke the heart.

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**Who acts:** Queen, malice, envy, evil weeds · **What happens:** hate, grow, be, spring up, choke, envy · **To what, where:** poor Snowdrop, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, malice, envy, evil weeds), 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:pg540:47:118
# text = From this hour she hated poor Snowdrop like poison, and every day her envy, hatred, and malice grew, for envy and jealousy are like evil weeds which spring up and choke the heart.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
24	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | Queen | poor Snowdrop |  |  | hour | like poison; Queen's day envy and hatred *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowdrop=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | malice |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | envy and jealousy |  |  |  |  | for evil weeds | tree rules |
| 4 | **spring up** | present | evil weeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **choke** | infinitive | evil weeds *not said here* | the heart |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination |
| 6 | **envy** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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