Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 11
From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.
Who acts: candles, hair, you, maiden · What happens: gleam, smelt, know, be, think · To what, where: windows, Eve
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 (candles, hair, you, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 windows | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 windows | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 windows | det |
| 4 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gleaming | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 candles | det |
| 6 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gleaming | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gleaming | aux |
| 8 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smelt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smelt | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smelt | nsubj |
| 12 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gleaming | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 deliciously | advmod |
| 14 | deliciously | deliciously | ADV | _ | 17 goose | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 goose | case |
| 16 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 goose | compound |
| 17 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smelt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 smelt | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Eve | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Eve | cop |
| 24 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Year | compound |
| 25 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Eve | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Year | case |
| 27 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 know | parataxis |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 29 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 34 thought | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 that | case |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 thought | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gleaming | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gleaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past · progressive | the candles | all windows | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smelt | past | hair | of roast goose | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | hair | New Year's Eve | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | maiden | of that | 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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