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title: One of these blocks had been placed by loving hands on a child's gra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these blocks had been placed by loving hands on a child's grave, and one of the women who had come out of the church walked up to it; she stood there, her eyes resting on the weather-beaten memorial, and a few moments afterwards her husband joined her. Who acts: loving hands, one, church, gra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 69

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One of these blocks had been placed by loving hands on a child's grave, and one of the women who had come out of the church walked up to it; she stood there, her eyes resting on the weather-beaten memorial, and a few moments afterwards her husband joined her.

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**Who acts:** loving hands, one, church, grass, eyes, few moments · **What happens:** place, come out, walk up, stand, rest, beat · **To what, where:** One, grave, block, eyes, beaten memorial, grass

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loving hands, one, church, grass), 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:pg27200:158:69
# text = One of these blocks had been placed by loving hands on a child's grave, and one of the women who had come out of the church walked up to it; she stood there, her eyes resting on the weather-beaten memorial, and a few moments afterwards her husband joined her.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
52	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | loving hands | One of this blocks |  | a child's grave |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on grave=Destination |
| 2 | **come out** | past · perfect | one of the women |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **walk up** | past | the church |  |  | block |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past | grass | grass's eyes |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rest** | gerund | grass's eyes *not said here* |  |  | the beaten memorial |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on memorial=Location |
| 6 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **join** | past | a few moments | grass |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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