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title: The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronge… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronger; she had broader shoulders and a darker skin; her eyes were quite black, and she had a mournful look. Who acts: little robber girl, girl, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robbe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 12

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The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronger; she had broader shoulders and a darker skin; her eyes were quite black, and she had a mournful look.

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**Who acts:** little robber girl, girl, eyes · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** same size, broader shoulders, mournful look

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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 girl, girl, eyes), 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:pg27200:174:12
# text = The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronger; she had broader shoulders and a darker skin; her eyes were quite black, and she had a mournful look.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the little robber girl | the same size |  |  |  | as Gerda; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | girl | broader shoulders and a darker skin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | girl's eyes |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | girl | a mournful look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |

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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:** «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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