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title: The New Testament must remain to her a sealed book, and yet she knew… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The New Testament must remain to her a sealed book, and yet she knew a great deal of its teaching, and the sound of the gospel truths still lingered among the recollections of her childhood. Who acts: New Testament, music, Testament. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 28

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The New Testament must remain to her a sealed book, and yet she knew a great deal of its teaching, and the sound of the gospel truths still lingered among the recollections of her childhood.

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**Who acts:** New Testament, music, Testament · **What happens:** remain, seal, know, linger, deal, teach · **To what, where:** sealed book, music, great deal, sound, teaching, childhood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (New Testament, music, Testament), 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:pg27200:67:28
# text = The New Testament must remain to her a sealed book, and yet she knew a great deal of its teaching, and the sound of the gospel truths still lingered among the recollections of her childhood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Testament	testament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	gospel	gospel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	truths	truth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	recollections	recollection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | must | the New Testament | a sealed book | music |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | past | music | a great deal of Testament's teaching |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
| 4 | **linger** | participle · passive |  | the sound of the gospel truths |  |  | still | among the recollections of music's childhood | tree rules |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | Testament's teaching |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **teach** |  | Testament |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **recollect** |  |  | music's childhood |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «cognition 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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