Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 27
These all belong to me," said the robber-girl; and she seized the nearest to her, held it by the feet, and shook it till it flapped its wings. "
Who acts: robber girl, girl, way · What happens: belong, say, seize, hold, shake, flap · To what, where: me, nearest, Gerda, way, wings · 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, girl, way), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 all | det |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 belong | advmod |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 belong | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 10 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 robber | punct |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seized | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nearest | det |
| 18 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 seized | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feet | det |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 held | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shook | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shook | cc |
| 29 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shook | obj |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 flapped | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flapped | nsubj |
| 33 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shook | advcl |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wings | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flapped | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the robber girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seize in a quote | past | girl | the nearest | Gerda | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent near=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold in a quote | past | girl not said here | way | by the feet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by foot=Location | |||
| 5 | shake in a quote | past | the robber girl not said here | way | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | flap in a quote | past | way | way's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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