Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 141

The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would cost ten hundred and twenty dollars to build.

Who acts: builder, new house · What happens: make, cost, build · To what, where: estimate, hundred dollars

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 (builder, new house), 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	2 builder	det
2	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 carpenter	cc
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builder	conj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 estimate	det
7	estimate	estimate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cost	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cost	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cost	aux
13	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hundred	compound
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 dollars	nummod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 twenty	cc
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hundred	conj
18	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cost	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 build	mark
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cost	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	the builder and carpenter	a estimate	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset estimate=Product
2	cost	would	the new house	hundred dollars	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dollar=Value
3	build	to-infinitive	the new house not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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