Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 4

They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast.

Who acts: slippers, poor little thing, thing · What happens: be, wear, lose, scuffle away, roll · To what, where: large slippers, mother, slippers, street, two carriages

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 (slippers, poor little thing, thing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slippers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slippers	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slippers	amod
5	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worn	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 worn	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worn	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worn	aux
11	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	12 worn	advmod
12	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 slippers	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 large	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 large	advmod
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 worn	xcomp
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 they	cop
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 large	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lost	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	nsubj
24	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slippers	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lost	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 scuffled	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scuffled	nsubj
28	scuffled	scuffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 scuffled	advmod
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 street	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 street	det
32	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scuffled	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carriages	punct
34	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	37 carriages	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 because	fixed
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 carriages	nummod
37	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 scuffled	parataxis
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 rolled	nsubj:pass
39	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 carriages	acl:relcl
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 fast	case
41	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	42 fast	advmod
42	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 rolled	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slippers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	slippers = slipper	large slippers			tree rules
2	wear	past · perfect · passive		Most's mother		hitherto, large property	tree rules
3	is a	past		slippers = slipper			tree rules
4	lose	past	the poor little thing	slippers = slipper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	scuffle away	past	thing		the street	away property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	roll	participle · passive		two carriages			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme by fast=Trajectory

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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