The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 5

For the step-mother was very cruel to the twins, and beat them, and half-starved them, and constantly drove them out of the house; for her one idea was to get them out of the way.

Who acts: one idea · What happens: be, beat, starve, drive · To what, where: children, house, way

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one idea), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 mother	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cruel	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cruel	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 cruel	advmod
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 twins	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 twins	det
11	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cruel	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beat	cc
14	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 cruel	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 beat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 starved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 starved	cc
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 starved	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 half	punct
20	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cruel	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 starved	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drove	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drove	cc
24	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	25 drove	advmod
25	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cruel	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drove	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 house	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 get	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 get	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 idea	nmod:poss
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 idea	nummod
35	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 get	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 get	mark
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cruel	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 get	obj
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 way	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 way	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				for the step mother; to the twins; cruel property	tree rules
2	beat	infinitive		children = child			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	starve	participle		children = child			tree rules
4	drive	past		children = child	the house	constantly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out house=Trajectory
5	is	past	order's one idea		the way	get 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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