Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 38

But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death on the last evening of the old year.

What happens: sit, smile, lean, freeze · To what, where: poor girl, corner, wall

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corner	det
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hour	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 hour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hour	amod
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 corner	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hour	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 corner	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cheeks	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 cheeks	case
19	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cheeks	amod
20	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mouth	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mouth	det
24	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 mouth	amod
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cheeks	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leaning	punct
27	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaning	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 frozen	punct
32	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wall	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 death	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 frozen	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 evening	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 evening	det
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 evening	amod
38	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 frozen	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 year	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 year	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 year	amod
42	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 evening	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the poor girl	the corner and the cold hour of dawn		with rosy cheeks and a smiling mouth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in corner=Location
2	smile	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lean	gerund		the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location
4	freeze	participle	the wall not said here		evening	to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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