Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 16
The priestly hands have been laid on the candidates for confirmation; hand in hand they walk on the green rampart.
Who acts: hands · What happens: lay, walk · To what, where: priestly hands, candidates, hand, green rampart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hands | det |
| 2 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hands | amod |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 laid | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 laid | aux:pass |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 candidates | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 candidates | det |
| 9 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 confirmation | case |
| 11 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 candidates | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walk | nsubj |
| 17 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hand | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 rampart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rampart | det |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rampart | amod |
| 21 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present · perfect · passive | the priestly hands | the candidates for confirmation | hand in hand obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on candidate=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | present | hands = hand | hand not said here | the green rampart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on rampart=Trajectory |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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