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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 return | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 builder | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 builder | compound |
| 10 | builder | builder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 house | nummod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 built | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 formed | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 formed | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 formed | nsubj |
| 24 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | conj |
| 25 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 street | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 street | det |
| 27 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 formed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 finished | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 finished | punct |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 finished | advmod |
| 32 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 street | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 became | punct |
| 34 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 formed | conj |
| 35 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 ornament | advmod |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ornament | det |
| 37 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 became | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 town | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 town | det |
| 40 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ornament | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
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.
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