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title: Now we come to the architect, the third brother, who had been first… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we come to the architect, the third brother, who had been first a carpenter's apprentice, had worn a cap, and served as an errand boy, but afterwards went to the academy, and risen to be an architect, a high and noble gentleman. Who acts: we, third brother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 142

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Now we come to the architect, the third brother, who had been first a carpenter's apprentice, had worn a cap, and served as an errand boy, but afterwards went to the academy, and risen to be an architect, a high and noble gentleman.

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**Who acts:** we, third brother · **What happens:** come, be, wear, serve, go, rise · **To what, where:** architect, apprentice, cap, academy

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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 (we, third brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:177:142
# text = Now we come to the architect, the third brother, who had been first a carpenter's apprentice, had worn a cap, and served as an errand boy, but afterwards went to the academy, and risen to be an architect, a high and noble gentleman.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	academy	academy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
51	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | we |  |  | the architect and the third brother and a carpenter's apprentice | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to architect=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | the third brother and a carpenter's apprentice | a carpenter's apprentice |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past · perfect |  | a cap |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the academy |  | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to academy=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **rise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a architect and a high gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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