Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 82

The dwelling-house was tarred, and all the small out-buildings had been put together from pieces of wreck.

What happens: tar, put together · To what, where: dwelling house, small out buildings, pieces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
2	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dwelling	punct
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tarred	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tarred	aux:pass
6	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 buildings	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 buildings	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 buildings	amod
12	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buildings	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 out	punct
14	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 put	aux:pass
17	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tarred	conj
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 put	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 wreck	case
22	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tarred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tar	past · passive		the dwelling house					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	put together	past · perfect · passive		all small out buildings		pieces of wreck		together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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