The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 4

They pushed her here, and threw her wretched clothes there, and gave her to eat only what they left, and they were as unkind to her as ever they could be.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: push, throw, give, eat, leave, be · To what, where: wretched clothes, eye

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 here	nmod:poss
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 pushed	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pushed	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
9	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothes	amod
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 threw	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 threw	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pushed	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gave	xcomp
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 what	advmod
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 eat	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 left	nsubj
21	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 what	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unkind	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unkind	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 unkind	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unkind	cop
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 unkind	case
27	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pushed	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 unkind	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 ever	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 unkind	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 be	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 unkind	cop
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	past	sisters = sister					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past		eye's wretched clothes		there		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	give	past	sisters = sister not said here		eye			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	leave	past	sisters = sister					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	sisters = sister		eye		unkind 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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