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title: Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson ver… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson very badly, and gave him scarcely anything to eat, and only rags to wear; and he would certainly have killed the boy but for fear of the people. Who acts: new husband, cruel wicked man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 51

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Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson very badly, and gave him scarcely anything to eat, and only rags to wear; and he would certainly have killed the boy but for fear of the people.

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**Who acts:** new husband, cruel wicked man · **What happens:** be, treat, give, eat, rag, wear · **To what, where:** cruel wicked man, stepson, anything, husband, people

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new husband, cruel wicked man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:20:51
# text = Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson very badly, and gave him scarcely anything to eat, and only rags to wear; and he would certainly have killed the boy but for fear of the people.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stepson	stepson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	rags	rag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | spadeful's new husband | a cruel wicked man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | past | a cruel wicked man |  | husband's stepson |  |  | badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepson=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | past | a cruel wicked man *not said here* | anything | stepson |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a cruel wicked man *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rag** | present | a cruel wicked man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wear** | to-infinitive | a cruel wicked man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **kill** | would · perfect · passive |  | husband |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=Result |
| 8 | **fear** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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