Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 9

She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing!

Who acts: maiden · What happens: creep, tremble

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 (maiden), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADP	_	4 trembling	mark
4	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 crept	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cold	case
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trembling	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hunger	cc
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 picture	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 picture	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 picture	advmod
12	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sorrow	case
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picture	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picture	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	maiden						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tremble	gerund	maiden not said here					with cold and hunger	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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