--- title: On his return home, he became a master builder,--built one house aft… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: On his return home, he became a master builder,--built one house after another in the town, till they formed quite a street, which, when finished, became really an ornament to the town. Who acts: friend, brothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) / 134 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 134 On his return home, he became a master builder,--built one house after another in the town, till they formed quite a street, which, when finished, became really an ornament to the town. **Who acts:** friend, brothers · **What happens:** become, build, form, finish, return · **To what, where:** master builder, return, one house, town, street, ornament This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, brothers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:177:134 # text = On his return home, he became a master builder,--built one house after another in the town, till they formed quite a street, which, when finished, became really an ornament to the town. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 builder builder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 27 det:predet _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ornament ornament NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | friend | a master builder | | friend's return | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **build** | past | friend *not said here* | one house | | the town | after another | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | | 3 | **form** | past | brothers *= brother* | quite street | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme | | 4 | **finish** | participle · passive | | quite street | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **become** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | a ornament to the town | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **return** | | friend | | | | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/135/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)