Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 12

The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronger; she had broader shoulders and a darker skin; her eyes were quite black, and she had a mournful look.

Who acts: little robber girl, girl, eyes · What happens: be, have · To what, where: same size, broader shoulders, mournful look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little robber girl, girl, eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 robber	punct
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 size	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 size	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	10 size	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 Gerda	case
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 size	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stronger	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stronger	cc
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 size	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stronger	advcl
19	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 shoulders	amod
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 skin	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 skin	det
23	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 skin	amod
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shoulders	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 black	punct
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 black	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 black	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 black	advmod
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 black	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 look	det
36	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 look	amod
37	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 size	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the little robber girl	the same size	as Gerda; about property	tree rules
2	have	past	girl	broader shoulders and a darker skin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
3	is	past	girl's eyes		black property	tree rules
4	have	past	girl	a mournful look		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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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