Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 57

"Lie still," said the robber-girl, "or I shall run my knife into your body."

Who acts: you, robber girl, snow · What happens: lie, say, run · To what, where: knife, body · 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 (you, robber girl, snow), 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	_	2 Lie	punct
2	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 Lie	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
8	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 robber	punct
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 run	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 run	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 run	aux
16	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Lie	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knife	nmod:poss
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 run	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 run	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie in a quote	imperative	you not said here			still	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the robber girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	run in a quote	shall	snow and ice = snow	my knife	your body		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent knife=Theme into body=Trajectory

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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