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title: She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God. Who acts: grandmother, matches, earth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The L
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 38

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She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.

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**Who acts:** grandmother, matches, earth · **What happens:** take, fly, be · **To what, where:** little girl, arms, brightness

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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 (grandmother, matches, earth), 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:pg27200:74:38
# text = She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc:preconj	_	_
28	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | grandmother | the little girl |  | grandmother's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **fly** | past | matches *= match* |  |  | brightness and joy |  | upwards *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brightness=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | matches *= match* |  |  |  |  | for God | 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:** «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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