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description: He bowed himself before bishop and monk; but when he offended the free peasants with heavy taxes and hard words, they seized their weapons and put him to flight like a wild beast. Who acts: King, peasants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 37

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He bowed himself before bishop and monk; but when he offended the free peasants with heavy taxes and hard words, they seized their weapons and put him to flight like a wild beast.

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**Who acts:** King, peasants · **What happens:** bow, offend, seize, put · **To what, where:** King, free peasants, weapons

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, peasants), 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:pg27200:10:37
# text = He bowed himself before bishop and monk; but when he offended the free peasants with heavy taxes and hard words, they seized their weapons and put him to flight like a wild beast.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	offended	offend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | King | King |  |  | before bishop and monk |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **offend** | past | King | the free peasants |  |  |  | with heavy taxes and hard words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus peasant=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seize** | past | peasants *= peasant* | peasants's weapons |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* |  | King |  |  | to flight; like a wild beast | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

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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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