Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 18
It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle, as she held her hands over it: it was a wonderful light.
Who acts: hand, Rischt · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: warm bright flame, hands, hand, wonderful light
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 (hand, Rischt), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flame | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flame | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flame | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flame | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flame | amod |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 candle | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 candle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 candle | det |
| 11 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flame | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flame | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 light | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 light | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 light | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 light | amod |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flame | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hand | a warm bright flame and a candle and a wonderful light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Rischt | Rischt's hands | hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over it=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | hand | a wonderful light | tree rules |
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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