Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 18
It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as she held her hand over it.
Who acts: roof, girl · What happens: give, hold · To what, where: warm bright light, hand, roof
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 (roof, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 light | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 light | amod |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 candle | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 candle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 candle | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 candle | amod |
| 12 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | roof | a warm bright light | like a little candle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | girl | girl's hand | roof | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over it=Location |
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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