Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 3

When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the good of that?

Who acts: Most, street · What happens: leave, have, be · To what, where: slippers

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, street), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 left	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 true	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 left	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
7	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 slippers	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 true	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 good	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 good	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 good	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 true	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 good	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Most		home property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Most	slippers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient
3	is	present	street		true property	tree rules
4	is	past	street not said here		of that; good property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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