Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 143

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, house · What happens: brother, be, erect, build, receive, become · To what, where: master builder, house, name, architect, property

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.

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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	23 built	discourse
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Ah	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 houses	det
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ah	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 street	amod
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 houses	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brother	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 brother	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brother	det
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 street	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 builder	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 builder	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 builder	det
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 builder	compound
18	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brother	acl:relcl
19	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 builder	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 built	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 built	aux
23	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 house	nmod:poss
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 built	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 house	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 received	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 received	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 received	nsubj
32	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 built	conj
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 name	nmod:poss
34	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 received	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 architect	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 architect	det
37	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 received	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 became	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 became	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
41	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 house	amod
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 became	nsubj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 street	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 street	det
45	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 house	nmod
46	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 built	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 property	nmod:poss
48	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 became	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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