Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 32
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. "
Who acts: goose · What happens: see, leave · To what, where: star fall, bright streak, fall
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fall | det |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | compound |
| 6 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leaving | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 streak | det |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streak | amod |
| 13 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 streak | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | goose | a star fall | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | goose not said here | a bright streak of fire | fall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent streak=Theme behind it=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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