Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 38

When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them.

Who acts: young maidens, clergyman, you, child · What happens: come, examine, go, confirm, be · To what, where: church

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young maidens, clergyman, you, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maidens	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maidens	amod
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 examined	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 examined	aux:pass
8	examined	examine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 come	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 clergyman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clergyman	det
11	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 examined	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 church	case
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 confirmed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 confirmed	aux:pass
19	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 go	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 close	expl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 close	cop
24	again	again	ADV	_	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 go	advmod
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the young maidens				tree rules
2	examine	gerund · passive	the clergyman				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	imperative	you not said here	church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
5	is	present	child	there	again	behind maidens = maiden; close property	tree rules

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.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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