--- title: One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. Who acts: he, urchin. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Little Match Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/) / 5 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 5 One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. **Who acts:** he, urchin · **What happens:** find, lay, run, think, do, have · **To what, where:** One slipper, children, urchin · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (he, urchin), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:24:5 # text = One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 4 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 urchin urchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 off off ADP IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 32 capitally capitally ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 when when SCONJ WRB _ 43 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 38 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 44 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | One slipper | | | | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **lay** | past · perfect · passive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **run** | past | he | | | | | with urchin | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **do** | would | urchin | | | | | for a cradle; capitally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | should | he | children himself | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 7 | **hold** | | | a urchin | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/6/) - ↑ back to [The Little Match Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/)