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title: Then she jumped out of bed, clasped her mother round the neck, and p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she jumped out of bed, clasped her mother round the neck, and pulled her by the beard, crying, "My own little nanny goat, good morning." Who acts: 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 e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 63

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Then she jumped out of bed, clasped her mother round the neck, and pulled her by the beard, crying, "My own little nanny goat, good morning."

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** jump out, clasp, pull, cry · **To what, where:** bed, mother

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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 (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:pg27200:174:63
# text = Then she jumped out of bed, clasped her mother round the neck, and pulled her by the beard, crying, "My own little nanny goat, good morning."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	nanny	nanny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump out** | past | girl | bed |  |  | then | My own little nanny goat *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory |
| 2 | **clasp** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's mother |  |  |  | round the neck | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | past | girl *not said here* | mother |  |  |  | by the beard | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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