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title: The priestly hands have been laid on the candidates for confirmation… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The priestly hands have been laid on the candidates for confirmation; hand in hand they walk on the green rampart. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 16

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The priestly hands have been laid on the candidates for confirmation; hand in hand they walk on the green rampart.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** lay, walk · **To what, where:** priestly hands, candidates, hand, green rampart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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:pg27200:3:16
# text = The priestly hands have been laid on the candidates for confirmation; hand in hand they walk on the green rampart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	priestly	priestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rampart	rampart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present · perfect · passive |  | the priestly hands |  | the candidates for confirmation |  | hand in hand *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on candidate=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | present | hands *= hand* | hand *not said here* |  | the green rampart |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on rampart=Trajectory |

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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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