Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 41
The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the knife in the other, and was soon fast asleep and snoring.
Who acts: little robber girl · What happens: put, hold, be, snore · To what, where: one arm, neck, knife, other
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 (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 | 5 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 robber | punct |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 arm | nummod |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 10 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Gerda | case |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knife | det |
| 17 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 held | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 asleep | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 asleep | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 asleep | cop |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 asleep | advmod |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 put | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 snoring | cc |
| 28 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 asleep | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the little robber girl | one arm | Gerda's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | |||
| 2 | hold | past | the little robber girl not said here | the knife | the other | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in other=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | asleep, fast property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | snore | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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