Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 162

They wandered across an open field to a mud hut, which they rented for a dollar and a half a year, a new home, with bare walls and empty cupboards.

Who acts: walls, mud hut · What happens: wander, rent · To what, where: open field

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, mud hut), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 field	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 field	det
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 field	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 hut	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hut	det
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hut	compound
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rented	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 rented	nsubj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rented	nsubj
14	rented	rent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hut	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 dollar	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dollar	det
17	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rented	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 half	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 half	det
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 dollar	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 half	nmod:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 home	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 home	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 home	amod
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dollar	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walls	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 walls	case
29	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 walls	amod
30	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cupboards	cc
32	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cupboards	amod
33	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 walls	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	walls = wall			a open field		to a mud hut	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
2	rent	past	a mud hut					for a dollar and a half a year and a new home	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dollar=Beneficiary

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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