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title: They came from Rome with a papal decree--a ban, or bull, against the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They came from Rome with a papal decree--a ban, or bull, against the widow who had dared to offend the pious bishop. " Who acts: horsemen, widow. 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 pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 34

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They came from Rome with a papal decree--a ban, or bull, against the widow who had dared to offend the pious bishop. "

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**Who acts:** horsemen, widow · **What happens:** come, dare, offend · **To what, where:** Rome, pious bishop

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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 (horsemen, widow), 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:pg27200:12:34
# text = They came from Rome with a papal decree--a ban, or bull, against the widow who had dared to offend the pious bishop. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	papal	papal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	offend	offend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | horsemen *= horseman* |  |  | Rome |  | with a papal decree and a ban or bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rome=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dare** | past · perfect | the widow |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **offend** | to-infinitive | the widow *not said here* | the pious bishop |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bishop=Experiencer |

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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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