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title: The candlestick was in the form of an angel holding a nosegay, in th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The candlestick was in the form of an angel holding a nosegay, in the centre of which the wax taper was to be placed. Who acts: candlestick, angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 114

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The candlestick was in the form of an angel holding a nosegay, in the centre of which the wax taper was to be placed.

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**Who acts:** candlestick, angel · **What happens:** be, hold, place · **To what, where:** form, nosegay, wax taper

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candlestick, angel), 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:pg27200:133:114
# text = The candlestick was in the form of an angel holding a nosegay, in the centre of which the wax taper was to be placed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	taper	taper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the candlestick |  |  | the form |  | of a angel | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | a angel *not said here* | a nosegay |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past · passive | the candlestick *not said here* | the wax taper |  |  |  | of the centre | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=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:** «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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