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title: The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor Eliza knew that she was innocent, and diligently continued her work. Who acts: archbishop, poor Eliza, Eliza. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 18

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The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor Eliza knew that she was innocent, and diligently continued her work.

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**Who acts:** archbishop, poor Eliza, Eliza · **What happens:** withdraw, utter, know, be, continue, work · **To what, where:** bitter words, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archbishop, poor Eliza, Eliza), 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:pg27200:210:18
# text = The archbishop withdrew, uttering bitter words against her; but poor Eliza knew that she was innocent, and diligently continued her work.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | past | the archbishop |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the archbishop *not said here* | bitter words |  |  |  | against Eliza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | past | poor Eliza |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Eliza |  |  |  |  | innocent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **continue** | past |  | Eliza's work |  |  |  | diligently *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 6 | **work** |  | Eliza |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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