Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 20
It seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a brass ornament.
Who acts: It, girl · What happens: seem, sit, polish
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 (It, 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 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seemed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sitting | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sitting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 stove | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stove | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stove | amod |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stove | compound |
| 15 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feet | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 18 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 feet | amod |
| 19 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | compound |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sitting | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ornament | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ornament | det |
| 23 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ornament | compound |
| 24 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | to the little girl | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | girl | by a large iron stove | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stove=Location | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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