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title: She was very unkind to them, and made them as miserable as she could… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: She was very unkind to them, and made them as miserable as she could, giving them only bread to eat and water to drink, and very little of either. Who acts: Ranee. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

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She was very unkind to them, and made them as miserable as she could, giving them only bread to eat and water to drink, and very little of either.

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**Who acts:** Ranee · **What happens:** be, make, give, eat, drink · **To what, where:** daughters, bread

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ranee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:3:48
# text = She was very unkind to them, and made them as miserable as she could, giving them only bread to eat and water to drink, and very little of either.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ranee |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | miserable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | bread and water | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | bread and water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** |  | Ranee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of either | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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