More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 161

So she coaxed, threatened, even beat her daughter, but all to no purpose; the girl remained what her mother called her, "an idle cuttie."

Who acts: mother, girl · What happens: coax, threaten, remain, call · To what, where: idle cuttie, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 coaxed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 coaxed	nsubj
3	coaxed	coax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 threatened	punct
5	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coaxed	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 daughter	advmod
8	beat	beat	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threatened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 purpose	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 purpose	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 purpose	det
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 purpose	det
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coaxed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	nsubj
20	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coaxed	conj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 remained	obj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	nsubj
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cuttie	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 cuttie	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cuttie	det
29	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cuttie	amod
30	cuttie	cuttie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 coaxed	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 coaxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	coax	past	mother			to all purpose result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to purpose=Result
2	threaten	participle				beat mother's daughter	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	remain	past	the girl	a idle cuttie			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute
4	call	past	mother's mother		girl		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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