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title: The Virgin Mary, with a golden crown on her head and the child Jesus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Virgin Mary, with a golden crown on her head and the child Jesus in her arms, stood lifelike on the altar; the holy Apostles had been carved in the choir, and on the walls there were portraits of the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen; the pulpit was of carved work. Who acts: Virgin Mar
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 2

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The Virgin Mary, with a golden crown on her head and the child Jesus in her arms, stood lifelike on the altar; the holy Apostles had been carved in the choir, and on the walls there were portraits of the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen; the pulpit was of carved work.

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**Who acts:** Virgin Mary, pulpit · **What happens:** stand, carve, be, portray · **To what, where:** lifelike, altar, holy Apostles, choir, old burgomasters

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Virgin Mary, pulpit), 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:pg27200:162:2
# text = The Virgin Mary, with a golden crown on her head and the child Jesus in her arms, stood lifelike on the altar; the holy Apostles had been carved in the choir, and on the walls there were portraits of the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen; the pulpit was of carved work.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	lifelike	lifelike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	burgomasters	burgomaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Virgin Mary | lifelike |  | the altar |  | on the walls | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lifelike=Theme on altar=Destination |
| 2 | **carve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the holy Apostles |  | the choir |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in choir=Destination |
| 3 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the pulpit |  |  |  |  | of carved work | tree rules |
| 5 | **portray** |  |  | the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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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