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title: The murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests are displayed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests are displayed under a black canopy, surrounded by candelabra decked with crape. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 111

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The murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests are displayed under a black canopy, surrounded by candelabra decked with crape.

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**What happens:** murder, display, surround, deck · **To what, where:** murdered bishop, black canopy, candelabra

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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: 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:pg27200:12:111
# text = The murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests are displayed under a black canopy, surrounded by candelabra decked with crape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	displayed	display	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	candelabra	candelabra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
20	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **display** | present · passive |  | the murdered bishop and the slain warriors and priests |  | a black canopy |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deck** | participle |  | candelabra *not said here* |  |  |  | with crape | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crape=Theme |

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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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