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title: The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would cost ten hundred and twenty dollars to build. Who acts: builder, new house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 141

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The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would cost ten hundred and twenty dollars to build.

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**Who acts:** builder, new house · **What happens:** make, cost, build · **To what, where:** estimate, hundred dollars

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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 (builder, new 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:pg27200:46:141
# text = The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would cost ten hundred and twenty dollars to build.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	builder	builder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
18	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the builder and carpenter | a estimate |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset estimate=Product |
| 2 | **cost** | would | the new house | hundred dollars |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dollar=Value |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | the new house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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