Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 17
The robber-girl looked earnestly at her, nodded her head slightly, and said, "They sha'nt kill you, even if I do get angry with you; for I will do it myself."
Who acts: robber girl, robbers · What happens: look, nod, say, sha'nt, kill, get · To what, where: head, you · 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 (robber girl, robbers), 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 | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nodded | obj |
| 13 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 10 nodded | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sha'nt | punct |
| 19 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sha'nt | nsubj |
| 20 | sha'nt | sha'nt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | obl |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 kill | conj |
| 29 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 get | xcomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 angry | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 do | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 do | aux |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 do | obj |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 36 do | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the robber girl | at Gerda; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the robber girl not said here | Gerda's head | slightly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the robber girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sha'nt in a quote | robbers = robber | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | present | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | the robber girl = girl | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | future | the robber girl = girl | head | myself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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