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title: He has great possessions, but still he longs for more--everything mu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He has great possessions, but still he longs for more--everything must bow before the mighty Olaf Glob. Who acts: plenty, everything. 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 every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 19

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He has great possessions, but still he longs for more--everything must bow before the mighty Olaf Glob.

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**Who acts:** plenty, everything · **What happens:** have, long, bow · **To what, where:** great possessions, mighty Olaf Glob

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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 (plenty, everything), 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:pg27200:12:19
# text = He has great possessions, but still he longs for more--everything must bow before the mighty Olaf Glob.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	longs	long	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Glob	Glob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | plenty | great possessions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient |
| 2 | **long** | present | plenty |  |  |  | still |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **bow** | must | everything |  |  | the mighty Olaf Glob |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before glob=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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