Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 8

No one had bought anything of her the whole day, nor had any one given here even a penny.

Who acts: one · What happens: buy, have, give · To what, where: anything, one, 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 (one), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bought	aux
4	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 bought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 day	nmod:poss
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bought	conj
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 one	acl
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 given	advmod
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 penny	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 penny	det
20	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 given	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	buy	past · perfect	no one	anything		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	have	past	no one not said here	any one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	give	participle	any one not said here	a penny	here	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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