Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 26
Then the match went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp, cold wall before her.
Who acts: match · What happens: go out, remain · To what, where: nothing
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 match | det |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nothing | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 remained | advmod |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 nothing | amod |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 wall | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wall | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thick | punct |
| 15 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wall | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 damp | punct |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wall | amod |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the match | nothing | then | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | remain | participle | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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