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title: And the sword leaps from the scabbard, and Olaf Hase deals a blow th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sword leaps from the scabbard, and Olaf Hase deals a blow that makes the panel of the church door, which Jens Glob hastily closes between them, fly in fragments. Who acts: sword, Olaf, blow, Jens. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 104

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And the sword leaps from the scabbard, and Olaf Hase deals a blow that makes the panel of the church door, which Jens Glob hastily closes between them, fly in fragments.

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**Who acts:** sword, Olaf, blow, Jens · **What happens:** leap, deal, make, close, fly · **To what, where:** scabbard, blow, panel, fragments

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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 (sword, Olaf, blow, Jens), 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:pg27200:12:104
# text = And the sword leaps from the scabbard, and Olaf Hase deals a blow that makes the panel of the church door, which Jens Glob hastily closes between them, fly in fragments.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Hase	Hase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	deals	deal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	panel	panel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
25	Jens	Jens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	Glob	Glob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	hastily	hastily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	list	_	_
28	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | present | the sword |  |  | the scabbard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from scabbard=Trajectory |
| 2 | **deal** | present | Olaf | a blow |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | a blow | the panel of the church door |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset panel=Product |
| 4 | **close** | present | Jens | the panel of the church door |  |  |  | between candles *= candle* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **fly** | infinitive | Jens *not said here* |  |  | fragments |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fragment=Location |

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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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