Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 7

She was a wild and naughty girl, and the mother called her an ugly thing, and had not time to kill Gerda.

Who acts: woman, mother · What happens: be, call, have, kill · To what, where: woman, Gerda · 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, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wild	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wild	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 girl	cc
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 time	advmod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kill	mark
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 kill	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman				wild property	tree rules
2	call	past	the mother		woman			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	have	past				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	to-infinitive		Gerda				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=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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