Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 4

"She is fat and pretty, and she has been fed with the kernels of nuts," said the old robber-woman, who had a long beard and eyebrows that hung over her eyes. "

Who acts: footman, old robber woman, long beard · What happens: be, feed, say, have, hang · To what, where: footman, long beard, eyes · 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 (footman, old robber woman, long beard), 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 fat	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pretty	cc
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fed	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fed	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fed	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 fed	aux:pass
12	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fat	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 kernels	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kernels	det
15	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 nuts	case
17	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kernels	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fat	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fat	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
23	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woman	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 robber	punct
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 woman	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beard	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beard	amod
31	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eyebrows	cc
33	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 beard	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hung	nsubj
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beard	acl:relcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 eyes	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hung	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	footman			fat property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		footman not said here				tree rules
3	feed in a quote	present · perfect · passive		footman		with the kernels of nuts	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the old robber woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	the old robber woman	a long beard and eyebrows			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
6	hang	past	a long beard and eyebrows		footman's eyes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location

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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