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title: Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 13

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Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.

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**Who acts:** maiden, farthing, wind · **What happens:** draw, grow, go, not venture, not sell, not bring · **To what, where:** little feet, matches, farthing, blows, home, roof

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, farthing, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:24:13
# text = Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	parataxis	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	farthing	farthing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
51	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	parataxis	_	_
59	too	too	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	above	above	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obl	_	_
64	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
66	only	only	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
70	through	through	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	74	obl	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	nsubj	_	_
74	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
76	even	even	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
77	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	82	mark	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	80	det	_	_
79	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	80	amod	_	_
80	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	82	nsubj:pass	_	_
81	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	aux:pass	_	_
82	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	74	ccomp	_	_
83	up	up	ADP	RP	_	82	compound:prt	_	_
84	with	with	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	obl	_	_
86	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	87	cc	_	_
87	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	85	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive |  | maiden's little feet |  |  |  | close *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **venture** | past · do-support | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **sell** | past · perfect | maiden | any matches |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **bring** | could | maiden *not said here* | a farthing of money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent farthing=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | would | maiden | blows |  |  |  | from maiden's father; certainly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blow=Theme from father=Source |
| 8 | **is** | past | farthing |  |  | home |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | past | maiden | the roof |  |  |  | for maiden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient |
| 10 | **whistle** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 11 | **stop up** | past · passive |  | the largest cracks |  |  |  | with straw and rags | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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