Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 34
You go away when the match burns out; you vanish like the warm stove, like the delicious roast goose, and like the magnificent Christmas tree!”
Who acts: You, match · What happens: go away, burn out, vanish
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 (You, match), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 burns | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 match | det |
| 6 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burns | nsubj |
| 7 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 burns | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanish | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 vanish | nsubj |
| 11 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 stove | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stove | det |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stove | amod |
| 15 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanish | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goose | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 goose | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goose | det |
| 19 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 goose | amod |
| 20 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goose | compound |
| 21 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stove | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tree | cc |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 26 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tree | amod |
| 27 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present | You | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn out | present | the match | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | present | you | like the warm stove and the delicious roast goose | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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