The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 94

They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-treatment they had made her undergo.

Who acts: sisters, Cinderella · What happens: throw, beg, make, undergo · To what, where: sisters, feet, pardon, Cinderella

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, Cinderella), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beg	mark
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threw	advcl
9	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beg	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 treatment	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 treatment	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 treatment	det
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 treatment	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
15	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beg	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 treatment	acl:relcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	undergo	undergo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	sisters = sister	sisters = sister	Cinderella's feet		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	pardon		for all ill treatment	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient for treatment=Topic
3	make	past · perfect	sisters = sister	Cinderella			tree rules
4	undergo	infinitive	Cinderella not said here				tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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