--- title: Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account; she had always… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account; she had always to do the hardest work, and got very little to eat, and no attention paid to her; but to her own daughter she was all that was good. Who acts: stepmother, wife, little, attention. 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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 (stepmother, wife, little, attention), 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:pg5615:31:38 # text = Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account; she had always to do the hardest work, and got very little to eat, and no attention paid to her; but to her own daughter she was all that was good. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 43 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | wife's stepmother | | wife | this account | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | wife | the hardest work | | | | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 3 | **get** | past | wife *not said here* | little | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | little *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pay** | past | no attention | | wife | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | wife | | | | | to wife's own daughter; good *property* | tree rules | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/39/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/)