English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 28

At last her ill-usage of him was told to Alice, Mr. Fitzwarren's daughter, who told the cook she should be turned away if she did not treat him kinder.

Who acts: daughter, business · What happens: tell, turn away, not treat, use · To what, where: last ill usage, Alice, cook, business, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, business), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 usage	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 usage	amod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 usage	nmod:poss
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 usage	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct
6	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 usage	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Alice	case
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 daughter	punct
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
15	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Fitzwarren	case
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Alice	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 daughter	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	aux:pass
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 told	ccomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 turned	advmod
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 treat	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 treat	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 treat	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 treat	advmod
32	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 treat	obj
34	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 treat	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		business's last ill usage of Dick	Alice		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to alice=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren Mr.'s daughter		the cook		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic
3	turn away	should · passive		business		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not treat a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	business		Dick	kind property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	use		business	Dick			nom usage «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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