The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 8

They made her do all the hard work, and hard words fell to her lot early and late, but little enough food accompanied them.

Who acts: sister, mother, hard words, little enough food · What happens: make, do, fall, accompany · To what, where: mother, hard work, sister

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 (sister, mother, hard words, little enough food), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 work	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	amod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 lot	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lot	nmod:poss
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fell	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 late	cc
19	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 early	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 accompanied	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 accompanied	cc
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
23	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 accompanied	nsubj
25	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 accompanied	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	sister	mother		tree rules
2	do	infinitive	mother not said here	all hard work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	fall	past	hard words		to mother's lot; early property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme
4	accompany	past	little enough food	sister		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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