--- title: Grandmother," cried the little one, "O take me with you; I know you… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Grandmother," cried the little one, "O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree." Who acts: Grandmother, I, you, match. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Little Match-seller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/) / 35 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 35 Grandmother," cried the little one, "O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree." **Who acts:** Grandmother, I, you, match · **What happens:** cry, take, know, go away, burn out, vanish · **To what, where:** little one, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grandmother, I, you, match), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:74:35 # text = Grandmother," cried the little one, "O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree." 1 Grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 O o INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 42 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 45 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Grandmother | the little one | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | Grandmother *not said here* | | me | | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 3 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go away** | future | you | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **burn out** | present | the match | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **vanish** | future | you | | | | | like the warm stove and the roast goose | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/36/) - ↑ back to [The Little Match-seller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/)