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title: The little robber-girl took Gerda to a corner of the robbers’ camp w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little robber-girl took Gerda to a corner of the robbers’ camp where she slept. Who acts: little robber girl, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 16

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The little robber-girl took Gerda to a corner of the robbers’ camp where she slept.

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**Who acts:** little robber girl, girl · **What happens:** take, sleep · **To what, where:** Gerda, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. 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, 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:pg5615:10:16
# text = The little robber-girl took Gerda to a corner of the robbers’ camp where she slept.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the little robber girl | Gerda |  | a corner of the robbers's camp |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to corner=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:** «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.

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