Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 28

"Cleanliness is a good thing," said she, scouring the vessel with snakes, which she had tied together in a large knot; then she pricked herself in the breast, and let the black blood drop into it.

Who acts: Cleanliness, thing · What happens: be, say, scour, tie, prick, let · To what, where: good thing, vessel, snakes, large knot, thing, breast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (Cleanliness, thing), 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	_	6 thing	punct
2	Cleanliness	cleanliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scouring	punct
12	scouring	scour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vessel	det
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scouring	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 snakes	case
16	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scouring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 tied	nsubj:pass
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tied	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tied	aux
21	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 snakes	acl:relcl
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 tied	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 knot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 knot	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knot	amod
26	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pricked	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 pricked	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pricked	nsubj
30	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 pricked	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 breast	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 breast	det
34	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pricked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pricked	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 drop	det
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 drop	amod
40	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drop	compound
41	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 let	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Cleanliness	a good thing				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	scour	gerund	thing not said here	the vessel			with snakes	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent vessel=Source
4	tie	past · perfect · passive		snakes	a large knot		together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	prick	past	thing	thing	the breast	then		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient
6	let	infinitive	thing not said here	the black blood drop	Cleanliness			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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