Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 87

We reached our old home; but the cottage was in ruins, and we had to build a new one.

Who acts: We, cottage · What happens: reach, be, have, build · To what, where: old home, ruins, new one

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, cottage), 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	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 home	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 home	amod
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ruins	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 ruins	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ruins	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ruins	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 ruins	case
12	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reached	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 build	mark
18	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 build	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	We	our old home		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme
2	is	past	the cottage		ruins	tree rules
3	have	past	we			tree rules
4	build	to-infinitive	we not said here	a new one		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

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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