Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 21

How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.

Who acts: fire, flame, stove, match · What happens: burn, seem, stretch out, warm, go out, vanish · To what, where: child, feet, remains, hand

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 (fire, flame, stove, match), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 burned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	advcl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seemed	cc
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 warm	advmod
9	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	10 warm	advmod
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seemed	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stretched	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stretched	nsubj:pass
14	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 warm	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 stretched	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stretched	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 warm	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 warm	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 warm	mark
21	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stretched	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 warm	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 when	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 burned	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
26	lo	lo	INTJ	_	33 went	discourse
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 lo	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flame	det
29	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 match	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 match	det
32	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flame	nmod
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 went	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 vanished	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stove	det
37	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 vanished	nsubj
38	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	conj
43	only	only	ADV	_	45 remains	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 remains	det
45	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	42 had	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	51 match	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 match	det
48	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	50 burnt	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 half	punct
50	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 match	amod
51	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 remains	nmod
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 hand	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 hand	nmod:poss
54	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	the fire not said here			warm property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stretch out	participle · passive		the child			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient foot=Result
4	warm	to-infinitive		feet = foot			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	go out	past	the flame of the match				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	vanish	past	the stove				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	stove	the remains of the burnt match	stove's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient
8	burnt	participle					tree rules
9	flame		the match				nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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