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title: Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens, and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her. Who acts: husband, first wife, wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 3

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Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens, and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her.

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**Who acts:** husband, first wife, wife · **What happens:** have, be, win, know · **To what, where:** daughter, heart, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, first wife, wife), 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:pg5615:33:3
# text = Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens, and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nmod	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | wife's husband | a daughter |  |  |  | by husband's first wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | husband's first wife |  |  |  |  | than all other maidens; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | past | wife | the heart of all |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** | past |  | wife |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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