Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 63
Then she jumped out of bed, clasped her mother round the neck, and pulled her by the beard, crying, "My own little nanny goat, good morning."
Who acts: girl · What happens: jump out, clasp, pull, cry · To what, where: bed, mother
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clasped | punct |
| 8 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clasped | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neck | det |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clasped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | cc |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 beard | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beard | det |
| 20 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crying | punct |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 goat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 goat | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 goat | amod |
| 28 | nanny | nanny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 goat | compound |
| 29 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 morning | punct |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 morning | amod |
| 32 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 goat | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | girl | bed | then | My own little nanny goat obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | clasp | past | girl not said here | girl's mother | round the neck | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull | past | girl not said here | mother | by the beard | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | girl not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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