Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 37
"I always sleep with the knife by me," said the robber-girl. "
Who acts: robber girl · What happens: sleep, say · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 knife | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knife | det |
| 7 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 14 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 robber | punct |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | present | the robber girl = girl | with the knife; by the robber girl = girl; always property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the robber girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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