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title: Twice had icy winter returned before the bishop welcomed the horseme… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Twice had icy winter returned before the bishop welcomed the horsemen and servants back to their home. Who acts: bishop. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 33

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Twice had icy winter returned before the bishop welcomed the horsemen and servants back to their home.

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**Who acts:** bishop · **What happens:** have, return, welcome, servant back · **To what, where:** horsemen

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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 (bishop), 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:pg27200:12:33
# text = Twice had icy winter returned before the bishop welcomed the horsemen and servants back to their home.
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	servants	servant	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | winter | twice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **welcome** | past | the bishop | the horsemen |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme |
| 4 | **servant back** | present | the bishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to horsemen's home | 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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