The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 16

She beat and cuffed the poor child from morning till night, but as the stepmother had the whip-hand of her husband there was no remedy.

Who acts: peasant, remedy · What happens: beat, cuff, have, be · To what, where: poor child, whip hand

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: who acts (peasant, remedy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cuffed	cc
4	cuffed	cuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuffed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuffed	obl
10	till	till	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuffed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 stepmother	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stepmother	det
16	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hand	det
19	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hand	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 whip	punct
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 husband	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hand	nmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	advcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 remedy	det
28	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	peasant					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	cuff	past	peasant not said here	the poor child		morning; night		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	have	past	peasant not said here	the whip hand of peasant's husband			as the stepmother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	be	past	no remedy		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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