Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 15

Oh! a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it.

Who acts: match, maiden · What happens: afford, dare, take, draw · To what, where: maiden, single one, bundle, world

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 (match, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 afford	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 match	det
4	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afford	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 afford	aux
6	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afford	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afford	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 comfort	case
11	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 world	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dared	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 dared	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dared	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 dared	advmod
16	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afford	parataxis
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dared	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 one	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 bundle	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bundle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bundle	det
24	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 draw	punct
26	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 draw	obj
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 draw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warm	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 warm	cc
33	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dared	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fingers	nmod:poss
35	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warm	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 warm	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afford	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	afford	might	a match	maiden			tree rules
2	dare a condition, not said to happen	past	maiden				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive	maiden not said here	a single one	the bundle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme out bundle=Initial_Location
4	draw	infinitive	maiden not said here	world		against the wall	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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