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title: She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love. Who acts: soul, more. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its depende
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 31

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She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.

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**Who acts:** soul, more · **What happens:** draw, be, stand · **To what, where:** match, old grandmother, lustre

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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 (soul, more), 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:pg1597:24:31
# text = She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	36	det:predet	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | soul | another match |  |  |  | against the wall | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | more |  |  |  | again | light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | more *not said here* | the old grandmother |  | the lustre; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme in lustre=Destination |
| 4 | **be** |  | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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