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title: "I am not admitted among the Christians," she said; "they mock me as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am not admitted among the Christians," she said; "they mock me as a Jewish girl; the neighbors' boys did so last Sunday when I stood looking in through the open church door at the candles burning on the altar, and listening to the singing. Who acts: children, boys, I, candles. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 59

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"I am not admitted among the Christians," she said; "they mock me as a Jewish girl; the neighbors' boys did so last Sunday when I stood looking in through the open church door at the candles burning on the altar, and listening to the singing.

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**Who acts:** children, boys, I, candles · **What happens:** not admit, say, mock, do, stand, look in · **To what, where:** I, me, altar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (children, boys, I, candles), 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:pg27200:67:59
# text = "I am not admitted among the Christians," she said; "they mock me as a Jewish girl; the neighbors' boys did so last Sunday when I stood looking in through the open church door at the candles burning on the altar, and listening to the singing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	mock	mock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	in	in	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
44	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mock** *in a quote* | present | children *= child* | me |  |  |  | as a Jewish girl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme as girl=Attribute |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | the neighbors's boys |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **look in** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the candles; through the open church door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme |
| 7 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund | the candles *not said here* |  |  | the altar |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on altar=Location |
| 8 | **listen** *in a quote* | gerund | the neighbors's boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the singing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to singing=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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