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title: The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confir… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown-up-persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding. Who acts: child, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 19

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The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown-up-persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding.

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**Who acts:** child, children, infant souls · **What happens:** speak, confirm, move, be, become, grow · **To what, where:** clergyman, children, eventful day, grown persons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, children, infant souls), 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:pg1597:18:19
# text = The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown-up-persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	touchingly	touchingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	eventful	eventful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	advmod	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
50	all	all	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	49	advmod	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	57	amod	_	_
57	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the clergyman |  |  |  | touchingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **confirm** | past · passive |  | the children |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **move** | past · perfect · passive |  | the children |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | past | child | a eventful day |  |  |  | for branches *= branch* | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | present | children | grown persons |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | branches's infant souls |  |  |  | now | once *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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