Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 24

And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.

Who acts: goose, match · What happens: be, behold, reel, come up, go out, leave behind · To what, where: more capital, dish, floor, nothing

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 (goose, match), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 what	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 capital	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 capital	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 capital	amod
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 behold	case
8	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hopped	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hopped	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goose	det
12	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hopped	nsubj
13	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 hopped	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 dish	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dish	det
17	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hopped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reeled	punct
19	reeled	reel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dish	acl
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 reeled	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reeled	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 knife	case
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reeled	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fork	cc
27	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knife	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 breast	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 breast	nmod:poss
30	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knife	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reeled	conj
35	up	up	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	40 girl	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 girl	amod
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 girl	amod
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 went	advmod
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 match	det
45	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	conj
47	out	out	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 nothing	cc
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	59 left	nsubj:pass
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 wall	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 wall	det
52	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 wall	amod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 thick	punct
54	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 wall	amod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 cold	punct
56	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 wall	amod
57	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nothing	conj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 left	aux:pass
59	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 went	parataxis
60	behind	behind	ADV	_	59 left	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		more capital		still		tree rules
2	behold	infinitive						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the goose		the dish		down, hop property	tree rules
4	reel	participle		the dish not said here	the floor		with knife in goose's breast and fork; about property	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	come up	past	goose				to the poor little girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial_Location
6	go out	past	the match				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	leave behind	past · passive		nothing			behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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