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title: And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. Who acts: matches, that, grandmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 37

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And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful.

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**Who acts:** matches, that, grandmother · **What happens:** glow, be, not appear

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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 (matches, that, grandmother), 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:pg27200:74:37
# text = And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful.
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	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | participle | the matches |  |  |  |  | with a light | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  | day | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **appear** | past · perfect | grandmother's grandmother |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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