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title: Ah yes, the houses of the new street, which the brother who was a ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah yes, the houses of the new street, which the brother who was a master builder erected, may have built his house for him, but the street received its name from the architect, and the handsomest house in the street became his property. Who acts: new street, brother, street, handsomest house. A sent
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 143

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Ah yes, the houses of the new street, which the brother who was a master builder erected, may have built his house for him, but the street received its name from the architect, and the handsomest house in the street became his property.

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**Who acts:** new street, brother, street, handsomest house, house · **What happens:** brother, be, erect, build, receive, become · **To what, where:** master builder, house, name, architect, property

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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 (new street, brother, street, handsomest house), 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:pg27200:177:143
# text = Ah yes, the houses of the new street, which the brother who was a master builder erected, may have built his house for him, but the street received its name from the architect, and the handsomest house in the street became his property.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
2	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	builder	builder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	amod	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brother** |  | the new street |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the brother | a master builder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **erect** | participle |  | a master builder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | may · perfect |  | builder's house |  |  |  | for builder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **receive** | past | the street | house's name |  | the architect |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from architect=Source |
| 6 | **become** | past | the handsomest house in the street | street's property |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | house |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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