--- title: She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of money. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/13/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Little Match-seller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/) / 13 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 13 She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of money. **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** draw, not keep off, go, sell, not take · **To what, where:** little feet, cold, matches, 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 (girl), 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:pg27200:74:13 # text = She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of money. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 24 home home ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 37 home home ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past · perfect | girl | girl's little feet | | | | under goose | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 2 | **not** **keep off** | could | girl | the cold | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | girl | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sell** | past · perfect | girl | no matches | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | | 5 | **not** **take** | could | girl *not said here* | a penny of money | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/14/) - ↑ back to [The Little Match-seller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/)