Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 5

One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it as a cradle, when he had children of his own.

Who acts: creature, boy · What happens: not find, seize, run away, say, use, have · To what, where: slippers, rate, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (creature, boy), 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	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 slippers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slippers	det
4	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 find	advmod
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slippers	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seized	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 One	parataxis
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seized	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 ran	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ran	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ran	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 use	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 use	aux
27	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saying	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 cradle	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cradle	det
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 had	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saying	ccomp
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 own	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 own	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 children	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not find	could	creature	the slippers not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Topic
2	seize	participle	a boy		upon the other	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run away	past	a boy not said here		with rate; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	use	could	boy	rate	as a cradle	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as cradle=Attribute
6	have	past	boy	children of boy's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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: «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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