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title: The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand. Who acts: small flame, stove. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 21

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The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.

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**Who acts:** small flame, stove · **What happens:** stretch out, warm, go out, vanish, have · **To what, where:** little girl, feet, remains

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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 (small flame, stove), 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:pg1597:24:21
# text = The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the little girl |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient foot=Result |
| 2 | **warm** | to-infinitive |  | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the small flame |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **vanish** | past | the stove |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | stove | the remains of the burnt out match in girl's hand |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient |

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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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