Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 3
It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were not of much use.
Who acts: It, girl, slippers · What happens: be, have, leave, not be · To what, where: pair
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 (It, girl, slippers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pair | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 slippers | case |
| 10 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 left | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 left | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 use | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 use | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 use | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 use | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 use | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 use | amod |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | a pair of slippers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | girl | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | slippers = slipper | of much use | 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: «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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