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title: She must have been fed on nut-kernels,” said the old female robber,… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She must have been fed on nut-kernels,” said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes. Who acts: old female robber, bushy eyebrows. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 2

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She must have been fed on nut-kernels,” said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.

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**Who acts:** old female robber, bushy eyebrows · **What happens:** feed, say, have, hang down · **To what, where:** She, nut kernels, old female robber, long scrubby beard, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old female robber, bushy eyebrows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:14:2
# text = She must have been fed on nut-kernels,” said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	kernels	kernel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	scrubby	scrubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | must · perfect · passive |  | She |  | nut kernels |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the old female robber |  |  |  | bushy eyebrows *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the old female robber | a long scrubby beard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 4 | **hang down** *in a quote* | past | bushy eyebrows |  |  | her eyes |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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