Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 14

Her father would certainly beat her; besides, it was almost as cold at home as here, for they had only the roof to cover them, through which the wind howled, although the largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags.

Who acts: father, penny, matches, wind · What happens: beat, be, have, cover, howl, stop up · To what, where: girl, home, roof, matches, largest holes

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 (father, penny, matches, wind), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 beat	advmod
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beat	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
8	besides	besides	INTJ	_	14 cold	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 besides	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 cold	case
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beat	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 here	case
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 cold	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 had	case
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	parataxis
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 roof	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roof	det
25	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cover	mark
27	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cover	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 howled	punct
30	through	through	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 howled	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 howled	nsubj
34	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cover	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stopped	punct
36	although	although	SCONJ	_	42 stopped	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 holes	det
38	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 holes	amod
39	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 stopped	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stopped	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 stopped	aux:pass
42	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 howled	ccomp
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 stopped	compound:prt
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 straw	case
45	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stopped	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 rags	cc
47	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 straw	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	would	girl's father	girl		certainly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
2	is	past	penny		home	almost, cold property	tree rules
3	have	past	matches = match	the roof			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
4	cover	to-infinitive	matches = match not said here	matches = match			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
5	howl	past	the wind				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	stop up	past · perfect · passive		the largest holes		with straw and rags	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme

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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