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title: Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, however hard he may ride. Who acts: bishop, Olaf, church. 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 claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 82

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Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, however hard he may ride.

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**Who acts:** bishop, Olaf, church · **What happens:** reach, scarce, do, ride · **To what, where:** church

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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, Olaf, church), 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:pg27200:12:82
# text = Borglum's bishop reaches the church; but Olaf Hase will scarce do so, however hard he may ride.
1	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Olaf	Olaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Hase	Hase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	scarce	scarce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | Borglum's bishop | the church |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme |
| 2 | **scarce** | future | Olaf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | Olaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ride** | may | church |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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