Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 34

She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her; in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet mild and loving in her appearance. "

Who acts: goose, light · What happens: rub, shine, stand · To what, where: match, wall, old grandmother, brightness

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, light), 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	3 rubbed	nsubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	3 rubbed	advmod
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 match	det
5	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shone	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	conj
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shone	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 brightness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brightness	det
19	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandmother	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grandmother	amod
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clear	punct
25	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stood	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shining	cc
27	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 clear	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mild	punct
29	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	30 mild	cc
30	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rubbed	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 loving	cc
32	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mild	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 appearance	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 appearance	nmod:poss
35	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mild	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 mild	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	goose	a match	the wall	again		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent match=Theme on wall=Destination
2	shine	past	the light				round goose	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	goose not said here	goose's old grandmother	the brightness			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme in brightness=Destination
4	shine	gerund	goose not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «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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