Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 20
The fire burned with such blessed influence; it warmed so delightfully.
Who acts: fire · What happens: burn, warm
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 (fire), 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 fire | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 influence | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 influence | amod |
| 6 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 influence | amod |
| 7 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 warmed | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 warmed | nsubj |
| 10 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burned | parataxis |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 delightfully | advmod |
| 12 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 10 warmed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | the fire | with such blessed influence | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with influence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | past | fire | delightfully property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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