Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 36
And she made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: haste, light, wish, keep · To what, where: whole bundle, grandmother
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 haste | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 haste | nsubj |
| 3 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 haste | aux |
| 4 | haste | haste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 light | mark |
| 6 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 haste | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bundle | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bundle | amod |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 matches | case |
| 11 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bundle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 wished | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 light | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haste | may | grandmother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | light | to-infinitive | grandmother not said here | the whole bundle of matches | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Product | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | grandmother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | grandmother not said here | grandmother's grandmother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=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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