Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 8
"She shall play with me," said the little robber-girl; "she shall give me her muff and her pretty dress, and sleep with me in my bed."
Who acts: woman · What happens: play, say, give, sleep · To what, where: muff, me, bed · 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), 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 | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 play | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 12 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 robber | punct |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 muff | nmod:poss |
| 22 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dress | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dress | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dress | amod |
| 26 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 muff | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sleep | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sleep | cc |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sleep | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 bed | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bed | nmod:poss |
| 34 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sleep | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | shall | woman | with me | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give in a quote | shall | woman | woman's muff and woman's pretty dress | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient muff=Theme | |||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | woman not said here | my bed | with me | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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