Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 35
Grandmother," cried the little one, "O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree."
Who acts: Grandmother, I, you, match · What happens: cry, take, know, go away, burn out, vanish · To what, where: little one, me · 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 (Grandmother, I, you, match), 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 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grandmother | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grandmother | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 take | discourse |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 burns | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 match | det |
| 24 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burns | nsubj |
| 25 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 burns | compound:prt |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 vanish | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 vanish | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 vanish | aux |
| 30 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 stove | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stove | det |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stove | amod |
| 34 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vanish | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 goose | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 goose | det |
| 37 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 goose | compound |
| 38 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stove | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tree | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 tree | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 tree | det |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tree | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 large | punct |
| 44 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tree | amod |
| 45 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 tree | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 Christmas | punct |
| 47 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 tree | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Grandmother | the little one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Grandmother not said here | me | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go away | future | you | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burn out | present | the match | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | vanish | future | you | like the warm stove and the roast goose | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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