Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 27

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her.

Who acts: Thousands, girl · What happens: burn, color, see, look down · To what, where: green branches, colored pictures, shop windows

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 (Thousands, girl), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burning	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 lights	case
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 looked	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branches	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branches	amod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pictures	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pictures	cc
12	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 colored	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 gaily	punct
14	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pictures	amod
15	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 branches	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	21 seen	mark
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 pictures	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 windows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
24	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 windows	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 shop	punct
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 looked	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	Thousands of lights		the green branches and colored pictures		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location
2	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	see	past · perfect	girl	colored pictures not said here	the shop windows		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
4	look down	past				upon girl; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=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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