--- title: "She is fat and pretty, and she has been fed with the kernels of nut… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "She is fat and pretty, and she has been fed with the kernels of nuts," said the old robber-woman, who had a long beard and eyebrows that hung over her eyes. " Who acts: footman, old robber woman, long beard. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (footman, old robber woman, long beard), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:174:4 # text = "She is fat and pretty, and she has been fed with the kernels of nuts," said the old robber-woman, who had a long beard and eyebrows that hung over her eyes. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 kernels kernel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 eyebrows eyebrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | footman | | | | | fat *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | footman *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | footman | | | | with the kernels of nuts | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old robber woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | past | the old robber woman | a long beard and eyebrows | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | | 6 | **hang** | past | a long beard and eyebrows | | | footman's eyes | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/5/) - ↑ back to [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/)