Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 35
The poor animal began to kick, and the little robber-girl laughed, and pulled down Gerda into bed with her.
Who acts: poor animal, little robber girl · What happens: begin, kick, laugh, pull down · To what, where: Gerda, bed
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 (poor animal, little robber 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kick | mark |
| 6 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 11 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 robber | punct |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | nsubj |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulled | cc |
| 17 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 laughed | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pulled | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulled | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pulled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the poor animal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kick | to-infinitive | the poor animal not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the little robber girl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pull down | participle | Gerda | bed | with girl | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent gerda=Result |
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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