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title: I struck a match a little bit on the wall; probably it came a little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I struck a match a little bit on the wall; probably it came a little too close to the thatched roof. Who acts: I, match. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 71

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I struck a match a little bit on the wall; probably it came a little too close to the thatched roof.

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**Who acts:** I, match · **What happens:** strike, come, thatch · **To what, where:** match, little

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, match), 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:pg27200:2:71
# text = I struck a match a little bit on the wall; probably it came a little too close to the thatched roof.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | I | a match |  |  |  | on the wall; a little bit *obl:unmarked* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent match=Instrument on wall=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | match | a little |  |  |  | close, probably *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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