Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 36

And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.

Who acts: matches, bundle · What happens: give, be, not have · To what, where: brilliant light, grandmother

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 (matches, bundle), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 matches	det
3	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 light	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 brighter	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brighter	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brighter	cop
12	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 gave	advcl
13	than	than	ADP	_	17 day	case
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 noon	punct
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brighter	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 had	advmod
20	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 beautiful	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grandmother	det
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 beautiful	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 beautiful	advmod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tall	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 tall	advmod
29	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beautiful	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the matches	such brilliant light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	is	past	bundle		day	bright property	tree rules
3	not have	past		the grandmother		formerly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient
4	is	participle	the matches not said here			beautiful property	tree rules
5	be		the matches 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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