Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 11

Lights were shining from every window, and there was a savory smell of roast goose, for it was New-year's eve--yes, she remembered that.

Who acts: Lights, it, girl, roast goose · What happens: shine, be, remember, smell · To what, where: window, that

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lights, it, girl, roast goose), 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	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shining	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shining	aux
3	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 eve	csubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shining	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 eve	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 smell	det
12	savory	savory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smell	amod
13	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 goose	case
15	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goose	compound
16	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smell	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eve	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	25 eve	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eve	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 eve	cop
21	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 year	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 New	punct
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eve	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 year	case
25	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 remembered	punct
27	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	30 remembered	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remembered	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remembered	nsubj
30	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 eve	conj
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 remembered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 eve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	Lights		every window			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	it			year	for New year's eve	tree rules
3	remember	past	girl	that				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	smell		roast goose					nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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