Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 27
She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree.
Who acts: goose · What happens: light, find, sit · To what, where: match, goose, beautiful Christmas tree
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 (goose), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lighted | nsubj |
| 2 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 match | det |
| 4 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lighted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lighted | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 found | xcomp |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 15 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Christmas | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | goose | another match | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Product | ||||
| 2 | find | past | goose | goose | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | goose not said here | a beautiful Christmas tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=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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