Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 9

And then she bit her mother again, and made her spring in the air, and jump about; and all the robbers laughed, and said, "See how she is dancing with her young cub."

Who acts: woman, robbers · What happens: bite, make, jump about, laugh, say, see · To what, where: mother, air · 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, robbers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 bit	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bit	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 bit	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spring	nmod:poss
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jump	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jump	cc
18	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	18 jump	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 laughed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laughed	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 robbers	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 robbers	det
24	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laughed	nsubj
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laughed	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 See	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 See	punct
31	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 dancing	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dancing	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dancing	aux
35	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 See	xcomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 cub	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cub	nmod:poss
38	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cub	amod
39	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dancing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 See	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	woman	woman's mother		then; again		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
2	make	past	woman not said here		the air	spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	jump about	infinitive	woman not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past	all robbers					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	all robbers not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see in a quote	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	dance in a quote	present · progressive	woman				with woman's young cub	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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