--- title: She said, "His brother made all the stone and bricks, and sent them… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She said, "His brother made all the stone and bricks, and sent them to me to build my poor little dwelling, which was a great deal to do for a poor woman like me. Who acts: mother, brother, poor little dwelling. 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/pg27200/177/207/) [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/) / 207 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 207 She said, "His brother made all the stone and bricks, and sent them to me to build my poor little dwelling, which was a great deal to do for a poor woman like me. **Who acts:** mother, brother, poor little dwelling · **What happens:** say, make, send, build, be, do · **To what, where:** stone, brothers, mother, poor little dwelling, great deal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mother, brother, poor little dwelling), 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:pg27200:177:207 # text = She said, "His brother made all the stone and bricks, and sent them to me to build my poor little dwelling, which was a great deal to do for a poor woman like me. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dwelling dwelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | earth's brother | all stone and bricks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product | | 3 | **send** *in a quote* | past | mother *not said here* | brothers *= brother* | mother | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination | | 4 | **build** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | my poor little dwelling | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dwelling=Product | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | my poor little dwelling | a great deal | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | | | | | for a poor woman like me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/206/) - next →: [sentence 208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/208/) - ↑ back to [The Snowdrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/)