Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 39

In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse!

Who acts: sun · What happens: lie, smile, lean, freeze, rise, shine · To what, where: poor little one, wall, grandmother, little corpse

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 (sun), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 morning	case
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dawn	nmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lay	advmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cheeks	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 cheeks	case
14	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cheeks	amod
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mouth	cc
17	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 mouth	amod
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leaning	punct
20	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 wall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wall	det
23	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaning	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 frozen	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frozen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frozen	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 frozen	aux:pass
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frozen	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 evening	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evening	det
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 evening	amod
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frozen	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 year	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 year	det
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 evening	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 rose	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rose	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 year	det
41	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 year	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 New	punct
43	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sun	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 year	case
45	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rose	nsubj
46	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 shone	cc
48	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 rose	conj
49	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 corpse	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 corpse	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 corpse	amod
52	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 shone	obl
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		the poor little one and pale cheeks and smiling mouth	there	dawn		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	smile	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lean	gerund			the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location
4	freeze	past · perfect · passive		grandmother		evening	to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	rise	past	the New year's sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shine	past	the New year's sun not said here		a little corpse			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon corpse=Location

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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