--- title: The robber-girl looked at her very seriously, and nodded her head, s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The robber-girl looked at her very seriously, and nodded her head, saying, ‘They shall not kill you, even if you are naughty, for then I will kill you myself!’ Who acts: robber girl, arms, you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber girl, arms, you, I), 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:pg5615:10:14 # text = The robber-girl looked at her very seriously, and nodded her head, saying, ‘They shall not kill you, even if you are naughty, for then I will kill you myself!’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 obl _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 35 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the robber girl | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at seriously=Theme | | 2 | **nod** | past | the robber girl *not said here* | girl's head | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the robber girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **kill** | shall | arms *= arm* | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | naughty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **kill** | future | I | you | | | | myself *obl:unmarked* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/15/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/)