Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 16

Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, just to warm her fingers.

Who acts: burning match, girl · What happens: burn, be, draw, strike, warm · To what, where: roof, bundle, fingers

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 (burning match, girl), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 good	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 match	amod
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 good	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 good	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	cop
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 good	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 draw	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 draw	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 draw	aux
15	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 bundle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bundle	det
19	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 draw	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 strike	cc
21	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 draw	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 strike	obj
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 wall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strike	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 warm	punct
27	just	just	ADV	_	29 warm	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 warm	mark
29	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 draw	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fingers	nmod:poss
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 warm	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	might	a burning match			good, perhaps property	tree rules
3	draw a condition, not said to happen	could	girl	roof	the bundle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bundle=Initial_Location
4	strike	infinitive	girl not said here	roof		against the wall	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument against wall=Patient
5	warm	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's fingers			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=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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