Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 67

Then the reindeer jumped for joy; and the little robber-girl lifted Gerda on his back, and had the forethought to tie her on, and even to give her her own little cushion to sit on.

Who acts: reindeer, little robber girl · What happens: jump, lift, have, tie on, give, sit on · To what, where: Gerda, back, forethought, girl, own little cushion

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 (reindeer, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 jumped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reindeer	det
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 lifted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lifted	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
11	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 robber	punct
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	nsubj
14	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
15	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lifted	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forethought	det
23	forethought	forethought	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tie	mark
25	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tie	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	25 tie	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 give	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lifted	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cushion	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cushion	amod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cushion	amod
37	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 sit	mark
39	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 give	advcl
40	on	on	ADV	_	39 sit	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the reindeer				then	for joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lift	past	the little robber girl	Gerda		maiden's back			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme on back=Destination
3	have	past	the little robber girl not said here	the forethought					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forethought=Patient
4	tie on	to-infinitive	the little robber girl not said here	girl					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	give	to-infinitive	the little robber girl not said here	girl's own little cushion	girl				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cushion=Theme
6	sit on	to-infinitive	the little robber girl not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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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