Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 41
No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.
Who acts: one, grandmother · What happens: have, see, dream, enter, suspect, joy · To what, where: slightest suspicion, beautiful things, grandmother, joys, new year
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 (one, grandmother), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 suspicion | det |
| 5 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 suspicion | amod |
| 6 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 things | nsubj |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 suspicion | nmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dreamed | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreamed | nsubj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 dreamed | advmod |
| 18 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 splendor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 splendor | det |
| 21 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreamed | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 splendor | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grandmother | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 grandmother | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreamed | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 entered | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 entered | aux |
| 30 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 joys | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 joys | det |
| 33 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 entered | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 year | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 year | det |
| 36 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 year | amod |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 joys | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | no one | the slightest suspicion of beautiful things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | grandmother | beautiful things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dream | past | no one | of the splendor; with grandmother's grandmother | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | enter | past · perfect | grandmother | grandmother's grandmother not said here | the joys of a new year | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grandmother=Destination | |||
| 5 | suspect | beautiful things | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | joy | a new year | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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