Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 62

"Now listen," said the robber-girl; "all our men are gone away,--only mother is here, and here she will stay; but at noon she always drinks out of a great bottle, and afterwards sleeps for a little while; and then, I'll do something for you."

Who acts: robber girl, men, mother · What happens: listen, say, be, stay, drink out, sleep · To what, where: great bottle, something · 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, men, mother), 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	_	3 listen	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 listen	advmod
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	_	17 gone	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 men	det:predet
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 men	nmod:poss
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gone	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	cop
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 here	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 here	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 mother	advmod
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 here	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 here	cop
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 gone	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stay	cc
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 stay	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stay	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stay	aux
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 here	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 drinks	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 drinks	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 noon	case
34	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drinks	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drinks	nsubj
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 drinks	advmod
37	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
38	out	out	ADP	_	42 bottle	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 bottle	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bottle	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bottle	amod
42	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drinks	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sleeps	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sleeps	cc
45	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	46 sleeps	advmod
46	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 drinks	conj
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 while	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 while	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 while	amod
50	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sleeps	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 then	cc
53	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 do	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 then	punct
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 do	nsubj
56	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 do	aux
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
58	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 do	obj
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 you	case
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 do	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive				now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the robber girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	our men				away, go property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	mother				here property	tree rules
5	stay in a quote	future	mother		here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drink out in a quote	present	mother	a great bottle		noon	always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
7	sleep in a quote	present	mother not said here			while	afterwards property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	do in a quote	future	the robber girl = girl	something		then	for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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