Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 30

“Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.

Who acts: Someone, little girl, that, soul · What happens: be, say, love, not be, tell, fall · To what, where: only person, more, girl, God · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Someone, little girl, that, soul), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
2	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grandmother	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 grandmother	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandmother	amod
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 person	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
19	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 person	amod
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grandmother	appos
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 loved	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 loved	aux
23	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 person	acl:relcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 loved	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 more	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 more	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 more	advmod
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 told	nsubj:pass
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	aux
34	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 grandmother	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 falls	punct
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 falls	nsubj
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 falls	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 star	det
40	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 falls	nsubj
41	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grandmother	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ascends	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 soul	det
44	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ascends	nsubj
45	ascends	ascend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 falls	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 God	case
47	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 ascends	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Someone				dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the little girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	love	past · perfect · passive		the only person				tree rules
4	not is	past				now	more property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		more	girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
6	fall	present	that					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ascend	present	a soul		God			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial_Location

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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