The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
She was very unkind to them, and made them as miserable as she could, giving them only bread to eat and water to drink, and very little of either.
Who acts: Ranee · What happens: be, make, give, eat, drink · To what, where: daughters, bread
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ranee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 4 unkind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unkind | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 unkind | advmod |
| 4 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unkind | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unkind | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 miserable | advmod |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 miserable | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | iobj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 bread | advmod |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bread | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bread | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 drink | mark |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 giving | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 little | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 little | cc |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 little | advmod |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unkind | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 either | case |
| 32 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 little | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unkind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ranee | daughters = daughter | unkind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | daughters = daughter | miserable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | bread and water | daughters = daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | bread and water not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | be | Ranee not said here | of either | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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