The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 2
That stepmother of ours beats us regularly every day, and if we dare go near her she kicks us away.
Who acts: stepmother, we · What happens: beat, go, kick away · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, we), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beats | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ours | case |
| 4 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beats | obj |
| 7 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 5 beats | advmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beats | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beats | parataxis |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kicks | nsubj |
| 19 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kicks | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 kicks | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | ours's stepmother | us | day | regularly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location we=Theme | ||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen | dare | we | near stepmother | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near she=Location | ||||
| 3 | kick away | present | stepmother | us | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent we=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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