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title: When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them. Who acts: young maidens, clergyman, you, child. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 38

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When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them.

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**Who acts:** young maidens, clergyman, you, child · **What happens:** come, examine, go, confirm, be · **To what, where:** church

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young maidens, clergyman, you, child), 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:pg1597:26:38
# text = When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the young maidens |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **examine** | gerund · passive | the clergyman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **confirm** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 5 | **is** | present | child |  |  | there | again | behind maidens *= maiden*; close *property* | tree rules |

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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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