Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 25

But in front of the tan-yard, close to the entrance, stood a little girl clothed in rags, very pretty to look at, with curly hair, and eyes so blue and clear that it was a pleasure to look into them.

What happens: stand, clothe, look, be · To what, where: little girl, front, pleasure

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. 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	_	15 stood	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 yard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
6	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yard	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tan	punct
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 close	punct
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 yard	amod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 entrance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 entrance	det
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 front	punct
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girl	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girl	amod
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obj
19	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 girl	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 rags	case
21	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clothed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pretty	punct
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 pretty	advmod
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	15 stood	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stood	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 hair	case
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hair	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 hair	case
30	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blue	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 blue	cc
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 blue	nsubj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 blue	advmod
36	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stood	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 clear	cc
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 blue	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 pleasure	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 pleasure	expl
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 pleasure	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pleasure	det
43	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blue	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 pleasure	acl
46	into	into	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 look	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a little girl	front of the tan yard	pretty property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in front=Destination
2	clothe	participle	a little girl not said here		in rags	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in rag=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive			at curly hair	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hair=Theme
4	is a	past	a pleasure			tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive			into eyes = eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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