Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 29

Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down upon it all.

Who acts: Thousands, goose · What happens: burn, color, see, look down · To what, where: green branches, pictures, show windows

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 (Thousands, 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burning	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 tapers	case
3	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 branches	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branches	amod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 colored	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 colored	cc
12	colored	color	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	conj
13	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 colored	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 looked	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 those	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 windows	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 windows	det
22	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 windows	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 show	punct
24	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 those	punct
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 colored	conj
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 looked	advmod
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 it	det
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	Thousands of tapers		the green branches		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon branch=Location
2	color	past	Thousands of tapers not said here	pictures			vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
3	see	past · perfect	goose		the show windows		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	look down	past	Thousands of tapers not said here			like those; upon window; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=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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