Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 7

She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron, and she held a bundle of them in her hand.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: carry, hold · To what, where: quantity, old apron, bundle, hand

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 (maiden), 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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quantity	det
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 matches	case
6	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quantity	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 apron	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 apron	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 apron	amod
10	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 held	nsubj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bundle	det
16	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bundle	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	maiden	a quantity of matches		a old apron			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent quantity=Value in apron=Location
2	hold	past	maiden	a bundle of matches		maiden's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in hand=Location

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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