Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 40

The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. "

Who acts: child · What happens: sit, hold, burnt · To what, where: stiffness, matches, hand

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 (child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stiffness	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stiffness	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stiffness	det
8	stiffness	stiffness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stiffness	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holding	punct
12	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 matches	det
14	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holding	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holding	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bundle	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bundle	nummod
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hand	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 burnt	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 burnt	aux:pass
24	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bundle	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the child		the stiffness of death	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stiffness=Location
2	hold	gerund	the child not said here	the matches	grandmother's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent match=Theme in hand=Location
3	burnt	past · passive					of one bundle	tree rules

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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