Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 22

We had been lonely in our hut for several days and nights when my father came home.

Who acts: We, father · What happens: be, come · To what, where: hut

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, father), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hut	nmod:poss
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lonely	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lonely	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nights	cc
12	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 days	conj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	advcl
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	We			our hut	day	lonely property	tree rules
2	come	past	my father					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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