Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 98
The mass has long been finished, silence reigns in the church, and the wax is heard dropping from the candles to the stone pavement.
Who acts: silence, wax · What happens: finish, reign, hear, drop · To what, where: mass, church, wax, candles
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, wax), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:834): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mass | det |
| 2 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 finished | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reigns | punct |
| 8 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reigns | nsubj |
| 9 | reigns | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reigns | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wax | det |
| 16 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 finished | conj |
| 19 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 candles | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 candles | det |
| 22 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dropping | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 pavement | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pavement | det |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pavement | compound |
| 26 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · perfect · passive | the mass | long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reign | present | silence | the church | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · passive | the wax | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drop | gerund | the wax not said here | the candles | to the stone pavement | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from candle=Destination to pavement=Initial_Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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