Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 18

It was a great amusement to her to hit out among the hunting-dogs with her whip; but her father would rather have seen her hit among the peasant boys, who came running up to stare at their lord.

Who acts: horse, father, daughter, peasant boys · What happens: be, hit out, see, hit, come, run up · To what, where: great amusement, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, father, daughter, peasant boys), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 amusement	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amusement	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 amusement	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amusement	amod
5	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 amusement	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hit	mark
9	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 amusement	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 hit	compound:prt
11	among	among	ADP	_	15 dogs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dogs	det
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dogs	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 hunting	punct
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 whip	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 whip	nmod:poss
18	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dogs	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 seen	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
24	rather	rather	ADV	_	26 seen	advmod
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 amusement	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hit	nsubj
28	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	ccomp
29	among	among	ADP	_	32 boys	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boys	det
31	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boys	amod
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hit	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 boys	acl:relcl
36	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 came	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 running	compound:prt
38	to	to	PART	_	39 stare	mark
39	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 running	advcl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 lord	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 lord	nmod:poss
42	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stare	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 amusement	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	horse	a great amusement	daughter		tree rules
2	hit out	to-infinitive				among the hunting dogs with daughter's whip	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	would · perfect	daughter's father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hit	past	daughter			among the peasant boys	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the peasant boys				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run up	gerund	the peasant boys not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stare	to-infinitive	the peasant boys not said here			at boys's lord	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lord=Theme

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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