Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 31

She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.

Who acts: soul, more · What happens: draw, be, stand · To what, where: match, old grandmother, lustre

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 (soul, more), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 match	det
4	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 light	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 light	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 light	cop
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 light	advmod
12	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drew	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 lustre	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lustre	det
17	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stood	advmod
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 light	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grandmother	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandmother	amod
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bright	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 bright	advmod
25	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 radiant	cc
27	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bright	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mild	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 mild	advmod
30	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 expression	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 expression	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 expression	case
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 expression	det:predet
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 expression	det
36	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	parataxis
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 love	case
38	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 expression	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	soul	another match			against the wall	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme
2	is	past	more			again	light property	tree rules
3	stand	past	more not said here	the old grandmother	the lustre; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme in lustre=Destination
4	be		more not said here					tree rules

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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