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title: A young maiden knelt at the altar, and renewed the vows made at her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A young maiden knelt at the altar, and renewed the vows made at her baptism; and there were white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl. Who acts: young maiden, vows, white roses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 30

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A young maiden knelt at the altar, and renewed the vows made at her baptism; and there were white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl.

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**Who acts:** young maiden, vows, white roses · **What happens:** kneel, renew, make, be · **To what, where:** young maiden, altar, baptism

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young maiden, vows, white roses), 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:pg27200:81:30
# text = A young maiden knelt at the altar, and renewed the vows made at her baptism; and there were white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	blushing	blushing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | participle |  | a young maiden *not said here* |  | the altar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at altar=Location |
| 2 | **renew** | past | a young maiden |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the vows |  |  | maiden's baptism |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **be** | past | white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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