The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 158
One day the stepmother had given the girl a frightful beating, and then threatened to kill her outright.
What happens: give, threaten, kill · To what, where: stepmother, girl, outright
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stepmother | det |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beating | det |
| 10 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beating | amod |
| 11 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threatened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threatened | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 threatened | advmod |
| 15 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 threatened | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 outright | nmod:poss |
| 19 | outright | outright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the stepmother | the girl | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | threaten | past | then | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | stepmother's outright | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outright=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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