The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 7

Both her step-mother and her step-sister were always finding fault with her, whatsoever she did and whithersoever she went, and they scolded her and abused her so that she never had an hour’s peace.

Who acts: step mother, mother, sister, hour · What happens: find, do, go, scold, abuse, not have · To what, where: fault, mother, peace

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step mother, mother, sister, hour), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 her	cc:preconj
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finding	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sister	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sister	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 step	punct
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finding	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 finding	advmod
13	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finding	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finding	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
18	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finding	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	whithersoever	whithersoever	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 did	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scolded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 scolded	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scolded	nsubj
28	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	parataxis
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scolded	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 abused	cc
31	abused	abuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scolded	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 abused	obj
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 had	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 had	advmod
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 abused	advcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hour	det
39	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 peace	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 hour	case
41	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 finding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · progressive	home's step mother and home's step sister	fault	with home; always property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
2	do	past	mother		whatsoever property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	mother		whithersoever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scold	past	sister	mother		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	abuse	past	sister not said here	mother		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	not have	past	mother	a hour's peace		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
7	pacify		a hour			nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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