Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 6
So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were quite red and blue from cold.
Who acts: little maiden, that · What happens: walk on, be · To what, where: cold
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: who acts (little maiden, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | amod |
| 10 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 red | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 red | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 red | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 red | advmod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blue | cc |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 red | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cold | case |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 red | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | the little maiden | with maiden's tiny naked feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | cold | red property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | that 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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