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title: The mass has long been finished, silence reigns in the church, and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mass has long been finished, silence reigns in the church, and the wax is heard dropping from the candles to the stone pavement. Who acts: silence, wax. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 98

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The mass has long been finished, silence reigns in the church, and the wax is heard dropping from the candles to the stone pavement.

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**Who acts:** silence, wax · **What happens:** finish, reign, hear, drop · **To what, where:** mass, church, wax, candles

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, wax), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:834`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:12:98
# text = The mass has long been finished, silence reigns in the church, and the wax is heard dropping from the candles to the stone pavement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	reigns	reign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | present · perfect · passive |  | the mass |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reign** | present | silence |  |  | the church |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | present · passive |  | the wax |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drop** | gerund | the wax *not said here* |  |  | the candles |  | to the stone pavement | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from candle=Destination to pavement=Initial\_Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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