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title: How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand. Who acts: fire, flame, stove, match. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 21

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How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.

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**Who acts:** fire, flame, stove, match · **What happens:** burn, seem, stretch out, warm, go out, vanish · **To what, where:** child, feet, remains, hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, flame, stove, 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:pg27200:74:21
# text = How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
26	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	amod	_	_
51	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch out** | participle · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient foot=Result |
| 4 | **warm** | to-infinitive |  | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **go out** | past | the flame of the match |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **vanish** | past | the stove |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | stove | the remains of the burnt match |  | stove's hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient |
| 8 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **flame** |  | the match |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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