Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 35
"What a horrible princess!" said John; "she ought to be well flogged.
Who acts: horrible princess · What happens: princess, say, flog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrible princess), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 princess | amod |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 flogged | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 flogged | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ought | nsubj |
| 13 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 flogged | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 flogged | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 flogged | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 flogged | advmod |
| 17 | flogged | flog | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | princess in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | a horrible princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | flog in a quote | ought · passive | a horrible princess not said here | well property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP» |
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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