Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 34
And then the robber-girl drew a long knife from a chink in the wall, and let it slide gently over the reindeer's neck.
Who acts: robber girl, knife · What happens: draw, let, slide · To what, where: long knife, chink, knife, neck
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, knife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 drew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 robber | punct |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knife | amod |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 chink | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chink | det |
| 13 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chink | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 drew | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 slide | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 neck | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 reindeer | det |
| 25 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 reindeer | case |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slide | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the robber girl | a long knife | a chink in the wall | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from chink=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the robber girl not said here | knife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slide | infinitive | knife not said here | the reindeer's neck | gently property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over neck=Trajectory |
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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