Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 5

She is as good as a little lamb; how nice she will taste!" and as she said this, she drew forth a shining knife, that glittered horribly. "

Who acts: woman, shining knife · What happens: be, taste, say, draw, shine, glitter · To what, where: this, shining knife · 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 (woman, shining 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 lamb	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamb	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lamb	amod
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 nice	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 nice	advmod
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	parataxis
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taste	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 taste	aux
14	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nice	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 said	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taste	conj
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 knife	det
27	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 knife	amod
28	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glittered	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 glittered	nsubj
31	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knife	acl:relcl
32	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	31 glittered	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	woman		as a little lamb; good property	tree rules
2	taste	future	woman			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	woman	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
4	draw in a quote	past	woman	a shining knife	forth property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	shine in a quote	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	glitter in a quote	past	a shining knife		horribly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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