Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 140

"We had five hundred dollars," she said, "and there was a house in the street to be sold for two hundred, so we thought it would be worth our while to pull it down and build a new one in its place; so it was bought.

Who acts: We, misfortune, house, it · What happens: have, say, be, sell, think, pull down · To what, where: hundred dollars, house, new one, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, misfortune, house, it), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dollars	nummod
6	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 street	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 street	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 sold	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sold	aux:pass
23	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 street	acl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 hundred	case
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hundred	compound
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sold	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 thought	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 worth	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 worth	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 worth	cop
34	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thought	ccomp
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 while	nmod:poss
36	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worth	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 pull	mark
38	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 worth	csubj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pull	obj
40	down	down	ADP	_	38 pull	compound:prt
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 build	cc
42	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 pull	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 one	det
44	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 one	amod
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 build	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 place	case
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 place	nmod:poss
48	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 one	nmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 bought	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	53 bought	advmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 bought	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bought	aux:pass
53	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	We	hundred dollars				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	misfortune					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	past	a house in the street		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sell in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a house in the street not said here				for two hundred	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: for hundred=Asset
5	think speech: other in a quote	past	we					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	would	it			while	worth property	tree rules
7	pull down in a quote	to-infinitive		house				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	build in a quote	present		a new one	house's place			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
9	buy in a quote	past · passive		house				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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