Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 12
In a corner formed by two houses, of which one advanced more than the other, she seated herself down and cowered together.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: form, seat down, cower · To what, where: corner, maiden
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corner | det |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seated | obl |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 corner | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 houses | nummod |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | conj |
| 12 | advanced | advanced | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 one | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 more | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 corner | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seated | nsubj |
| 19 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 seated | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 seated | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cowered | cc |
| 23 | cowered | cower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 seated | conj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 cowered | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | participle | a corner and which one not said here | by two houses | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by house=Location | ||||
| 2 | seat down | past | maiden | maiden | a corner and which one | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Value in corner=Location | |||
| 3 | cower | participle | maiden not said here | together property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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