Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 9
Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery.
Who acts: girl · What happens: shiver, creep, look · To what, where: poor little child, picture
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: who acts (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 | Shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 crept | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 cold | case |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shivering | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hunger | cc |
| 5 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cold | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shivering | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 crept | nsubj |
| 8 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 crept | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crept | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 misery | case |
| 20 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picture | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | gerund | girl not said here | with cold and hunger | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | girl | poor little child | along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | girl | the picture of misery | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme picture=Attribute |
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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