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title: They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-trea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-treatment they had made her undergo. Who acts: sisters, Cinderella. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 94

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They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-treatment they had made her undergo.

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**Who acts:** sisters, Cinderella · **What happens:** throw, beg, make, undergo · **To what, where:** sisters, feet, pardon, Cinderella

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, Cinderella), 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:pg503:11:94
# text = They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill-treatment they had made her undergo.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	undergo	undergo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | sisters *= sister* | sisters *= sister* |  | Cinderella's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | pardon |  |  |  | for all ill treatment | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient for treatment=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | sisters *= sister* | Cinderella |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **undergo** | infinitive | Cinderella *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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