Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 22

She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room.

Who acts: girl, wall, light · What happens: rub, burn, fall, become, see · To what, where: another, wall, room

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 (girl, wall, light), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 rubbed	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 burned	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burned	nsubj
9	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
10	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	9 burned	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 fell	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 wall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 became	expl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wall	det
23	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	parataxis
25	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 veil	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 veil	det
28	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 transparent	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 see	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 became	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 room	det
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	past	girl	another	the wall		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme against wall=Destination
2	burn	past	wall			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	the light		the wall		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
4	become	past	the wall		there	transparent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	see	could	girl		the room		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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