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title: The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the knife in the other, and was soon fast asleep and snoring. Who acts: little robber girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 41

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The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the knife in the other, and was soon fast asleep and snoring.

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**Who acts:** little robber girl · **What happens:** put, hold, be, snore · **To what, where:** one arm, neck, knife, other

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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), 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:pg27200:174:41
# text = The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the knife in the other, and was soon fast asleep and snoring.
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	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the little robber girl | one arm |  | Gerda's neck |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the little robber girl *not said here* | the knife |  | the other |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in other=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **snore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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