Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 28
The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out.
Who acts: little maiden · What happens: stretch out, go out · To what, where: hands
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 (little maiden), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 maiden | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretched | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stretched | obj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretched | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stretched | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | participle | the little maiden not said here | girl's hands | towards picture | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the little maiden | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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