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title: The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was right in her mother’s eyes; but the poor step-daughter had a hard time. Who acts: daughter, woman, whatever, poor step daughter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26), with its dependenc
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 3

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The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was right in her mother’s eyes; but the poor step-daughter had a hard time.

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**Who acts:** daughter, woman, whatever, poor step daughter · **What happens:** have, do, be · **To what, where:** own way, everything, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, woman, whatever, poor step daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:2524`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:37:3
# text = The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was right in her mother’s eyes; but the poor step-daughter had a hard time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the daughter | woman's own way |  | everything |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | whatever |  |  | woman's mother's eyes |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the poor step daughter |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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