Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 37
And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful.
Who acts: matches, that, grandmother · What happens: glow, be, not appear
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 (matches, that, 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 glowed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 matches | det |
| 3 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glowed | nsubj |
| 4 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glowed | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brighter | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brighter | cop |
| 10 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 light | amod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 13 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 noon | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brighter | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appeared | cc |
| 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 | 22 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 appeared | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 appeared | advmod |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 glowed | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 large | advmod |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appeared | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 large | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | participle | the matches | with a light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | day | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not appear | past · perfect | grandmother's grandmother | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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