Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 4

They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate.

Who acts: slippers, two carriages · What happens: be, belong, lose, run, avoid, roll · To what, where: poor little creature, street, two carriages, terrible rate

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 (slippers, two carriages), 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	4 large	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 large	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 large	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 large	advmod
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 large	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 belonged	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 belonged	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 belonged	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 belonged	aux
14	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 large	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belonged	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creature	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creature	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creature	amod
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 large	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	obj
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 running	mark
28	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 lost	advcl
29	across	across	ADP	_	31 street	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 running	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 avoid	mark
33	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 running	advcl
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 carriages	nummod
35	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 avoid	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 rolling	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 rolling	aux
38	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 carriages	acl:relcl
39	along	along	ADV	_	38 rolling	advmod
40	at	at	ADP	_	43 rate	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rate	det
42	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rate	amod
43	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rolling	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	slippers = slipper			large property	tree rules
2	be		slippers = slipper not said here			indeed property	tree rules
3	belong	past · perfect	slippers = slipper			to girl's mother	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	lose	past · perfect · passive		the poor little creature			tree rules
5	run	gerund			the street		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across street=Trajectory
6	avoid	to-infinitive		two carriages			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent carriage=Location
7	roll	past · progressive	two carriages		a terrible rate	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=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: «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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