--- title: Both her step-mother and her step-sister were always finding fault w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Both her step-mother and her step-sister were always finding fault with her, whatsoever she did and whithersoever she went, and they scolded her and abused her so that she never had an hour’s peace. Who acts: step mother, mother, sister, hour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step mother, mother, sister, hour), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:47:7 # text = Both her step-mother and her step-sister were always finding fault with her, whatsoever she did and whithersoever she went, and they scolded her and abused her so that she never had an hour’s peace. 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 2 cc:preconj _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 13 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 whatsoever whatsoever ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 whithersoever whithersoever ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 scolded scold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 abused abuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 37 mark _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · progressive | home's step mother and home's step sister | fault | | | | with home; always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | | 2 | **do** | past | mother | | | | | whatsoever *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | mother | | | | | whithersoever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scold** | past | sister | mother | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **abuse** | past | sister *not said here* | mother | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **not** **have** | past | mother | a hour's peace | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | | 7 | **pacify** | | a hour | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/8/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)