Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 2

She must have been fed on nut-kernels,” said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.

Who acts: old female robber, bushy eyebrows · What happens: feed, say, have, hang down · To what, where: She, nut kernels, old female robber, long scrubby beard, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old female robber, bushy eyebrows), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fed	aux:pass
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 kernels	case
7	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kernels	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 nut	punct
9	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 robber	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 robber	amod
15	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 robber	amod
16	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 robber	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beard	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beard	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
23	scrubby	scrubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beard	amod
24	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eyebrows	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eyebrows	cc
27	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eyebrows	amod
28	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 hung	nsubj
30	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 eyebrows	acl:relcl
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 hung	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hung	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	must · perfect · passive		She	nut kernels		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the old female robber		bushy eyebrows obl	tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	the old female robber	a long scrubby beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
4	hang down in a quote	past	bushy eyebrows		her eyes	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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