--- title: How it hails, to be sure!" said the princess, at each blow she recei… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:197:94 # text = 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. 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hails hail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 right right ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 whipped whip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/95/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/)