Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 2
In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet.
What happens: go, barehead · To what, where: cold, poor little girl
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cold | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cold | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 darkness | cc |
| 5 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cold | conj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bareheaded | punct |
| 16 | bareheaded | barehead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 girl | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feet | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feet | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feet | amod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this cold and darkness; there | along the street | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | barehead | participle | a poor little girl not said here | tree rules |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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