Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 21
The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.
Who acts: small flame, stove · What happens: stretch out, warm, go out, vanish, have · To what, where: little girl, feet, remains
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 (small flame, stove), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 stretched | advmod |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stretched | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 warm | mark |
| 11 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stretched | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 warm | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 warm | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flame | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flame | amod |
| 19 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 went | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vanished | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stove | det |
| 24 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vanished | nsubj |
| 25 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 vanished | conj |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 remains | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 remains | det |
| 31 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 28 had | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 match | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 match | det |
| 34 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 match | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 burnt | punct |
| 36 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 match | compound |
| 37 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remains | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 match | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past · perfect · passive | the little girl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient foot=Result | |||||
| 2 | warm | to-infinitive | feet = foot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | the small flame | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vanish | past | the stove | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | stove | the remains of the burnt out match in girl's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=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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