Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 13
She clasped little Gerda round the waist, and said,--
Who acts: girl · What happens: clasp, say · To what, where: little Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl), 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 | 2 clasped | nsubj |
| 2 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gerda | amod |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clasped | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 waist | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waist | det |
| 7 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clasped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clasped | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | girl | little Gerda | round the waist | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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