Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 26

Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.

Who acts: girl, tree · What happens: sit, be, decorate, see · To what, where: magnificent Christmas tree, one, glass door

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, tree), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sitting	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Now	fixed
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	11 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 magnificent	advmod
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 larger	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 larger	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 larger	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 larger	advmod
16	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sitting	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 decorated	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 decorated	cc
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 decorated	advmod
20	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 larger	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 decorated	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seen	nsubj:pass
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 one	acl:relcl
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
30	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 door	compound
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	37 house	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 merchant	det
34	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 merchant	amod
35	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 merchant	case
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	girl		the magnificent Christmas tree	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	is	past	tree			still	large property	tree rules
3	decorate	participle	tree not said here				than the one	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · perfect · passive		the one	the glass door		in the rich merchant's house	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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