Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 37

She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

Who acts: grandmother, both, matches · What happens: take, fly, be · To what, where: arm, brightness

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 (grandmother, both, matches), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maiden	obl:unmarked
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arm	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 brightness	case
15	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flew	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 joy	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 joy	case
18	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brightness	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 joy	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 high	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flew	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cold	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cold	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 cold	advmod
28	above	above	ADP	_	31 cold	case
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cold	cop
30	neither	neither	ADV	_	31 cold	advmod
31	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hunger	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 hunger	cc
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 anxiety	punct
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 anxiety	cc
37	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	parataxis
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 God	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 God	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 God	cop
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 God	case
42	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	grandmother	grandmother's arm		maiden property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination
2	fly	past	both	brightness and joy			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brightness=Location
3	is	past			then	cold, neither property	tree rules
4	is	past	matches = match			with God	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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