Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 23
It burst into a flame, and where its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room.
Who acts: wall, light, flame · What happens: burst, fall, become, see, light · To what, where: flame, wall, room
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 (wall, light, flame), 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 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 flame | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flame | det |
| 5 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fell | advmod |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 light | nmod:poss |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | advcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 transparent | advmod |
| 18 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 veil | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 veil | det |
| 21 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transparent | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 see | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 burst | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 room | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 room | det |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | wall | a flame | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | wall's light | the wall | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | become | past | wall | transparent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | could | flame | the room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | light | wall | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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