Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 74

These were fastened on the reindeer, and then the little robber-maiden opened the door, coaxed in all the great dogs, and then cut the string with which the reindeer was fastened, with her sharp knife, and said, "Now run, but mind you take good care of the little girl."

Who acts: little robber maiden, you, little girl · What happens: fasten, open, coax, cut, say, run · To what, where: These, door, string, reindeer, mind · 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 (little robber maiden, you, little 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 fastened	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	aux:pass
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 reindeer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reindeer	det
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 opened	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 opened	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maiden	amod
12	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maiden	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 robber	punct
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opened	nsubj
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opened	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 coaxed	punct
19	coaxed	coax	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 opened	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 dogs	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 dogs	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dogs	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dogs	amod
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 coaxed	obl:agent
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cut	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 cut	advmod
28	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 string	det
30	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cut	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fastened	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reindeer	det
34	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fastened	aux:pass
36	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 string	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 knife	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 knife	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 knife	nmod:poss
40	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 knife	amod
41	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cut	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 run	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 run	punct
47	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 run	advmod
48	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 said	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 take	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 take	cc
51	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obl:unmarked
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 take	nsubj
53	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cut	parataxis
54	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 care	amod
55	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 girl	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 girl	det
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 girl	amod
59	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 care	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive		These		on the reindeer	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on reindeer=Co-Patient
2	open	past	the little robber maiden	the door	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	coax	participle	the little robber maiden not said here				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cut	infinitive		the string	then		tree rules
5	fasten	past · passive		the reindeer		with the string	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with which=Co-Patient
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	run in a quote	infinitive			now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take in a quote	present	you	mind			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
9	care in a quote		the little girl				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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