Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 8

Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.

Who acts: Nobody · What happens: buy, give · To what, where: anything, one, maiden

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 (Nobody), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	aux
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 bought	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 day	nmod:poss
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
9	livelong	livelong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anything	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bought	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 farthing	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 farthing	amod
19	farthing	farthing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · perfect	Nobody	anything					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	give	past · perfect · passive		no one	maiden				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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