--- title: And then she bit her mother again, and made her spring in the air, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And then she bit her mother again, and made her spring in the air, and jump about; and all the robbers laughed, and said, "See how she is dancing with her young cub." Who acts: woman, robbers. 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 (woman, robbers), 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:pg27200:174:9 # text = And then she bit her mother again, and made her spring in the air, and jump about; and all the robbers laughed, and said, "See how she is dancing with her young cub." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 See see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 xcomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 cub cub NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | woman | woman's mother | | | then; again | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | woman *not said here* | | | the air | spring | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **jump about** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **laugh** | past | all robbers | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all robbers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **dance** *in a quote* | present · progressive | woman | | | | | with woman's young cub | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/10/) - ↑ back to [Little Robber-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/)