Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 67

Poor little Tiny stood before the door just like a little beggar-girl, and begged for a small piece of barley-corn, for she had been without a morsel to eat for two days.

Who acts: Poor little Tiny, Tiny · What happens: stand, beg, be, eat · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor little Tiny, Tiny), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tiny	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tiny	amod
3	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	just	just	ADV	_	14 girl	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 girl	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
12	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 beggar	punct
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
17	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 piece	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 piece	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 piece	amod
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 corn	case
23	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corn	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 barley	punct
25	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 morsel	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	33 morsel	case
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 morsel	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 morsel	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 morsel	cop
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 morsel	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 morsel	det
33	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 morsel	acl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 days	nummod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Poor little Tiny	the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
2	beg speech: request	participle	Poor little Tiny not said here			for a small piece of barley corn	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for piece=Topic
3	is	past · perfect	Tiny			for a morsel	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	Poor little Tiny not said here		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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