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title: It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting bef… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top. Who acts: It, Rischt. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 19

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It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.

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**Who acts:** It, Rischt · **What happens:** seem, sit, burnish · **To what, where:** top

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Rischt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:24:19
# text = It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  |  |  |  | to the little maiden | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | Rischt |  |  | top | before a large iron stove |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before stove=Location |
| 3 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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