Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 13

She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of money.

Who acts: girl · What happens: draw, not keep off, go, sell, not take · To what, where: little feet, cold, matches, penny

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 (girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drawn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drawn	aux
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drawn	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drawn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 keep	advmod
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drawn	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 keep	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cold	det
17	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
21	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 dared	advmod
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drawn	parataxis
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sold	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 sold	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sold	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sold	aux
29	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 go	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 matches	det
31	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sold	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 take	cc
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 take	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 take	advmod
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drawn	conj
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 take	advmod
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 penny	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 penny	det
40	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 money	case
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 penny	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past · perfect	girl	girl's little feet	under goose	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	not keep off	could	girl	the cold		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
3	go	past	girl		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sell	past · perfect	girl	no matches		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme
5	not take	could	girl not said here	a penny of money	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme

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: «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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