Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 7

In an old apron she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle of them in her hands.

Who acts: girl · What happens: carry, have · To what, where: number, old apron, bundle, hands

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 (girl), 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	_	4 apron	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 apron	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apron	amod
4	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 matches	case
10	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bundle	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	girl	a number of matches		a old apron			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent number=Value in apron=Location
2	have	past	girl not said here	a bundle of matches		girl's hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient

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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