Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 175

At last a very little girl came out of one of the wretched-looking houses, and Ib asked her to tell him the way to the street he wanted; she looked up timidly at him, and began to cry bitterly.

Who acts: last little girl, Ib, girl · What happens: come out, look, ask, tell, want, look up · To what, where: one, girl, way, Ib, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last little girl, Ib, girl), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 came	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 houses	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 houses	det
13	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looking	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 wretched	punct
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 houses	amod
16	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
19	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 street	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 street	det
29	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 street	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 looked	compound:prt
36	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	34 looked	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 began	cc
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 cry	mark
43	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	43 cry	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past	a last little girl	one of the looking houses			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result
2	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	Ib		girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ib not said here	the way	Ib	to the street	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
5	want	past	Ib	the street not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot street=Theme
6	look up	past	girl			at Ib; timidly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
7	begin	past	a last little girl not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	a last little girl not said here			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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