Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 2
In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets.
What happens: roam · To what, where: bare head, streets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cold | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cold | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 darkness | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 darkness | det |
| 6 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cold | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 girl | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cold | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feet | cc |
| 17 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feet | amod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 head | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 roamed | punct |
| 20 | roamed | roam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 head | acl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 streets | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 streets | det |
| 23 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roamed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | participle | bare head and naked feet not said here | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
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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