Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 146

We were backward in our payments, we borrowed more money, and all that we had was lost and sold, and then my husband died.

Who acts: We, husband · What happens: be, borrow, have, lose, sell, die · To what, where: payments, more money, all

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, husband), 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	6 payments	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 payments	cop
3	backward	backward	ADV	_	6 payments	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 payments	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 payments	nmod:poss
6	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 borrowed	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 borrowed	nsubj
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 payments	acl:relcl
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 money	amod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lost	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lost	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 lost	nsubj:pass
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	obj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 all	acl:relcl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lost	aux:pass
19	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 borrowed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sold	cc
21	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lost	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 died	advmod
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 husband	nmod:poss
26	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 payments	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	We		our payments		backward property	tree rules
2	borrow	past	we	more money				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	have	past	we					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	lose	past · passive		all				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	sell	participle						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
6	die	past	my husband			then		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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