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title: There lies the dead man, in the black cloak wrought with silver; the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There lies the dead man, in the black cloak wrought with silver; the crozier in the powerless hand that was once so mighty. Who acts: dead man, powerless hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 112

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There lies the dead man, in the black cloak wrought with silver; the crozier in the powerless hand that was once so mighty.

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**Who acts:** dead man, powerless hand · **What happens:** lie, be

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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 (dead man, powerless hand), 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:pg27200:12:112
# text = There lies the dead man, in the black cloak wrought with silver; the crozier in the powerless hand that was once so mighty.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crozier	crozier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	powerless	powerless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | the dead man |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the powerless hand |  |  |  |  | mighty, once *property* | tree rules |

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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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