English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 3

She used to make her do all the servant's work, and never let her have any peace.

Who acts: mother, servant · What happens: use, make, do, not let, have, work · To what, where: mother, work, peace

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, servant), 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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 work	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 servant	case
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 peace	det
19	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	past	mother		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	mother not said here	the servant's work	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	not let	infinitive	mother not said here	mother	tree rules
5	have	infinitive	mother not said here	any peace	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
6	work		the servant		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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