--- title: The stepmother’s daughter became the meanest sewing maid in the pala… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The stepmother’s daughter became the meanest sewing maid in the palace, the stepmother was tied to a wild horse, and every one knew and has never forgotten that whoever has a mind turned to wickedness is sure to end badly. Who acts: daughter, meanest sewing maid, one, whoever. A sentence of «The Vio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 135 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 135 The stepmother’s daughter became the meanest sewing maid in the palace, the stepmother was tied to a wild horse, and every one knew and has never forgotten that whoever has a mind turned to wickedness is sure to end badly. **Who acts:** daughter, meanest sewing maid, one, whoever, mind · **What happens:** become, sew, tie, know, not forget, have · **To what, where:** meanest sewing maid, stepmother, mind, wickedness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, meanest sewing maid, one, whoever), 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:pg641:35:135 # text = The stepmother’s daughter became the meanest sewing maid in the palace, the stepmother was tied to a wild horse, and every one knew and has never forgotten that whoever has a mind turned to wickedness is sure to end badly. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 meanest mean ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 8 sewing sew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 wickedness wickedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the stepmother's daughter | the meanest sewing maid in the palace | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sew** | gerund | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **tie** | past · passive | the meanest sewing maid in the palace *not said here* | the stepmother | | | | to a wild horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to horse=Co-Patient | | 4 | **know** | past | every one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **forget** | present · perfect | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | whoever | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **turn** | participle | | a mind *not said here* | | wickedness | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wickedness=Trajectory | | 8 | **is** | present | a mind | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **end** | to-infinitive | a mind *not said here* | | | | | badly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/136/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)