--- title: So when the man’s daughter went home, looking as beautiful and brigh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So when the man’s daughter went home, looking as beautiful and bright as day, the step-mother and her daughter grew much more ill-tempered, and it was worse still when she began to talk, and they saw that golden coins dropped from her mouth. Who acts: daughter, step mother, Gold, head. 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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 (daughter, step mother, Gold, head), 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:pg540:47:21 # text = So when the man’s daughter went home, looking as beautiful and bright as day, the step-mother and her daughter grew much more ill-tempered, and it was worse still when she began to talk, and they saw that golden coins dropped from her mouth. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 conj _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 50 from from ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the man's daughter | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | the step mother and mother's daughter *not said here* | | | | | as beautiful | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **grow** | past | the step mother and mother's daughter | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **temper** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Gold | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **begin** | past | head | | | | still | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **talk** | to-infinitive | head *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **see** | past | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **drop** | past | golden coins | | | head's mouth | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/22/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)