Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 94

How it hails, to be sure!" said the princess, at each blow she received from the rod; and it served her right to be whipped.

Who acts: blood, princess · What happens: hail, be, say, receive, serve, whip · To what, where: princess, blow, rod · 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 (blood, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 hails	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hails	nsubj
3	hails	hail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	7 sure	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sure	cop
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hails	ccomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blow	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 blow	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 blow	det
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 princess	appos
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 received	nsubj
18	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blow	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 rod	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rod	det
21	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 received	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 served	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 served	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 served	nsubj
25	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 served	obj
27	right	right	ADV	_	30 whipped	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	30 whipped	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 whipped	aux:pass
30	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 served	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hail	present	blood				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	is	to-infinitive	blood not said here			sure property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
4	receive in a quote	past	princess	each blow not said here	the rod		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blow=Theme from rod=Source
5	serve in a quote	past	blood	princess			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute
6	whip in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	blood not said here			right property	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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