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title: Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 4

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Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yellow dowdy

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg7439:49:4
# text = Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dowdy	dowdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | hearing's daughter | a yellow dowdy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the same mould; as hearing's mother; much *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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