Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 29

The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.

Who acts: lights, light, one · What happens: rise, see, fall down, form, light · To what, where: matches, long trail, Christmas tree

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 (lights, light, one), 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	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rose	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	nmod
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 rose	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 higher	cc
10	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 higher	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 saw	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 stars	case
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 heaven	case
19	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stars	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rose	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 formed	cc
25	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 trail	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trail	amod
28	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 formed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 fire	case
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trail	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the lights of the Christmas tree			high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	light	matches = match	now	as stars in heaven	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as star=Attribute
3	fall down	past	one			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	form	past	one not said here	a long trail of fire			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trail=Theme
5	light			the Christmas tree			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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