The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 38

Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account; she had always to do the hardest work, and got very little to eat, and no attention paid to her; but to her own daughter she was all that was good.

Who acts: stepmother, wife, little, attention · What happens: be, do, get, eat, pay · To what, where: wife, account, hardest work, little

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, wife, little, attention), 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	2 stepmother	nmod:poss
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cruel	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 cruel	advmod
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cruel	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 account	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 account	det
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cruel	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 do	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cruel	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
18	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 work	amod
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	advcl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 got	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 little	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 paid	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 paid	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 attention	det
30	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 paid	nsubj
31	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 paid	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 good	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 good	cc
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 daughter	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 daughter	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 daughter	amod
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 good	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 good	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 good	cop
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 good	det:predet
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 good	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 good	cop
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cruel	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	wife's stepmother		wife	this account	cruel property	tree rules
2	do	past	wife	the hardest work			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	get	past	wife not said here	little				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
4	eat	to-infinitive	little not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pay	past	no attention		wife			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	wife				to wife's own daughter; good property	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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