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title: The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the can… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the candidates were deeply moved by it; it was indeed a very important day for them; they were all at once transformed from mere children to grown-up people; the childish soul was to fly over, as it were, into a more reasonable being. Who 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 19

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The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the candidates were deeply moved by it; it was indeed a very important day for them; they were all at once transformed from mere children to grown-up people; the childish soul was to fly over, as it were, into a more reasonable being.

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**Who acts:** clergyman, candidates, childish soul · **What happens:** deliver, touch, move, be, transform, grow up · **To what, where:** clergyman, candidates, important day

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clergyman, candidates, childish soul), 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:pg27200:9:19
# text = The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the candidates were deeply moved by it; it was indeed a very important day for them; they were all at once transformed from mere children to grown-up people; the childish soul was to fly over, as it were, into a more reasonable being.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	sermon	sermon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	obl	_	_
34	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
50	over	over	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	expl	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	59	advmod	_	_
59	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	parataxis	_	_
60	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past · perfect · passive |  | the clergyman |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sermon=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | past · passive |  | the candidates |  |  |  | by clergyman; deeply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | clergyman | a important day |  |  |  | for candidates *= candidate*; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **transform** | past · passive | candidates *= candidate* |  |  |  |  | from mere children; to grown people; all *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from child=Initial\_State |
| 6 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | the childish soul |  |  |  |  | fly, over *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | reasonable *property* | tree rules |

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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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