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title: And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter tha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. Who acts: matches, bundle. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 36

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And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.

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**Who acts:** matches, bundle · **What happens:** give, be, not have · **To what, where:** brilliant light, grandmother

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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 (matches, bundle), 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:pg1597:24:36
# text = And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advcl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the matches | such brilliant light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | bundle |  |  |  | day | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past |  | the grandmother |  |  |  | formerly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | participle | the matches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the matches *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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