Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 10

The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.

Who acts: flakes, long fair hair, maiden · What happens: cover, fall, think · To what, where: long fair hair, beautiful curls

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flakes, long fair hair, maiden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flakes	det
2	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 snow	case
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flakes	nmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hair	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 curls	case
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 curls	amod
15	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	obl
16	around	around	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neck	nmod:poss
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 thought	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 course	case
25	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 that	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 once	advmod
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 thought	advmod
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 thought	advmod
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 covered	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	the flakes of snow	maiden's long fair hair				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Destination
2	fall	past	maiden's long fair hair		beautiful curls		around maiden's neck	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in curl=Location
3	think speech: other	participle	maiden			now	of that; once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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