Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 223

The blows might have done me good when I was a child; now, I suppose, I get them for my sins.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, be, suppose, get · To what, where: blows, me, child

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 (I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blows	det
2	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 done	iobj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 done	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 child	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 child	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 child	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 suppose	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 suppose	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suppose	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 suppose	nsubj
17	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 suppose	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 get	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 sins	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sins	nmod:poss
24	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	might · perfect · passive		the blows	me		good property	tree rules
2	is a	past	I	a child				tree rules
3	suppose	present	I			now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	I	blows = blow			for my sins	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme for sin=Source

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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