Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 33
Some one is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
Who acts: one, star, soul · What happens: die, think, love, be, tell, fall · To what, where: little girl, only one, goose, God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, star, soul), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dying | aux |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grandmother | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 grandmother | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grandmother | amod |
| 15 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grandmother | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 loved | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 loved | advmod |
| 23 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loved | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dead | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dead | cc |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 dead | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dead | cop |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 dead | advmod |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 told | punct |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 told | aux |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 falls | mark |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 falls | mark |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 star | det |
| 38 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 falls | nsubj |
| 39 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 told | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 going | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 soul | det |
| 42 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 going | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 going | aux |
| 44 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 falls | conj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 going | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 God | case |
| 47 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 going | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | some one not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | some one | the little girl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the only one | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | now | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past · perfect | some one not said here | goose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | fall in a quote | present | a star | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go up in a quote | past · progressive | a soul | God | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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