Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 71

I struck a match a little bit on the wall; probably it came a little too close to the thatched roof.

Who acts: I, match · What happens: strike, come, thatch · To what, where: match, little

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, match), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 match	det
4	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl:unmarked
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	obl:unmarked
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 close	advmod
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roof	det
21	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 roof	amod
22	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 close	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strike	past	I	a match	on the wall; a little bit obl:unmarked	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent match=Instrument on wall=Patient
2	come	past	match	a little	close, probably property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	thatch	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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