The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 51

Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson very badly, and gave him scarcely anything to eat, and only rags to wear; and he would certainly have killed the boy but for fear of the people.

Who acts: new husband, cruel wicked man · What happens: be, treat, give, eat, rag, wear · To what, where: cruel wicked man, stepson, anything, husband, people

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new husband, cruel wicked man), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 husband	amod
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cruel	punct
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 treated	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 treated	nsubj
12	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stepson	nmod:poss
14	stepson	stepson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treated	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 badly	advmod
16	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 treated	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 treated	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 anything	amod
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 gave	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 anything	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rags	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rags	cc
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 rags	advmod
28	rags	rag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 wear	mark
30	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 rags	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 killed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 killed	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 killed	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 killed	aux
35	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	37 killed	advmod
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 killed	aux
37	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 treated	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boy	det
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 killed	obj
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 fear	cc
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 fear	case
42	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 boy	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 people	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 people	det
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fear	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	spadeful's new husband	a cruel wicked man			tree rules
2	treat	past	a cruel wicked man		husband's stepson	badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepson=Recipient
3	give	past	a cruel wicked man not said here	anything	stepson		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	a cruel wicked man not said here	anything not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rag	present	a cruel wicked man not said here				tree rules
6	wear	to-infinitive	a cruel wicked man not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
7	kill	would · perfect · passive		husband		certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=Result
8	fear			the people			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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