Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 17
She drew one out-"scratch!" how it sputtered as it burnt!
Who acts: girl, scratch · What happens: draw, sputter · To what, where: one, scratch
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 (girl, scratch), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 scratch | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 out | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 scratch | punct |
| 7 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sputtered | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sputtered | nsubj |
| 12 | sputtered | sputter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sputtered | obl |
| 15 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sputtered | xcomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | girl | one | scratch | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme out scratch=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sputter | past | scratch | as roof; burnt property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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