Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 5

One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself.

Who acts: he, urchin · What happens: find, lay, run, think, do, have · To what, where: One slipper, children, urchin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (he, urchin), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 slipper	nummod
2	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
4	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 found	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 found	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hold	amod
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hold	amod
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 urchin	case
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 urchin	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 urchin	det
18	urchin	urchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 ran	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thought	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thought	ccomp
32	capitally	capitally	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 cradle	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cradle	det
35	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obl:unmarked
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 other	cc
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 day	conj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 do	advcl
44	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 have	obj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 children	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		One slipper		nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	lay	past · perfect · passive					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»
3	run	past	he			with urchin	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material
4	think speech: other	past	he				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	would	urchin			for a cradle; capitally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	should	he	children himself	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
7	hold			a urchin			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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