--- title: One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy seized upon the ot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/5/) [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/) / [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/) / 5 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:74:5 # text = 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. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 14 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/6/) - ↑ back to [The Little Match-seller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/)