Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 183
With the help of a match, Ib struck a light, and approached her.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: strike, approach, help · To what, where: light, help, match
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 help | det |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 match | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 match | det |
| 6 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 8 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 approached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 approached | cc |
| 14 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 approached | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Ib | a light | with the help of a match | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent light=Patient with help=Instrument | |||
| 2 | approach | past | Ib not said here | help | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | a match | nom help «act 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: «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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