--- title: His second wife, however, had also a grown-up daughter, who by herse… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His second wife, however, had also a grown-up daughter, who by herself would have been ugly and disagreeable enough, but beside her good and beautiful stepsister seemed still more ugly and wicked, so that all turned from her with loathing. Who acts: second wife, grown daughter. 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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 (second wife, grown daughter), 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:pg5615:33:4 # text = His second wife, however, had also a grown-up daughter, who by herself would have been ugly and disagreeable enough, but beside her good and beautiful stepsister seemed still more ugly and wicked, so that all turned from her with loathing. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 also also ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 21 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 disagreeable disagreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 enough enough ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 beside beside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 stepsister stepsister NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 advmod _ _ 43 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 loathing loathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | husband's second wife | a grown daughter | | | | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | would · perfect | a grown daughter | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a grown daughter *not said here* | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | past | | | | wife's good stepsister | | ugly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | past | | | | | | from wife; with loathing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from she=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/5/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/)