Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 39
Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt.
Who acts: Stiff · What happens: sit, burnt · To what, where: child, one bundle
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 (Stiff), 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 | Stiff | stiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stark | cc |
| 3 | stark | stark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stiff | conj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 matches | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 matches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burnt | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 burnt | obl |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bundle | compound |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 burnt | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 burnt | aux:pass |
| 18 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sat | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Stiff and stark | the child | there | with grandmother's matches | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||
| 2 | burnt | past · perfect · passive | one bundle | 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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