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title: Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 9

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Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** shiver, creep, look · **To what, where:** poor little child, picture

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:74:9
# text = Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery.
1	Shivering	shiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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