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title: I have fought the battle, it will soon be ended; we shall not see ea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have fought the battle, it will soon be ended; we shall not see each other again now until we meet before God!" Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 44

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I have fought the battle, it will soon be ended; we shall not see each other again now until we meet before God!"

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** fight, end, not see, meet · **To what, where:** battle, each

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg27200:22:44
# text = I have fought the battle, it will soon be ended; we shall not see each other again now until we meet before God!"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	16	obj	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present · perfect | I | the battle |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **end** | future · passive |  | battle |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **see** | shall | we | each |  |  | again; now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 4 | **meet** | present | we |  |  |  | before God |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP 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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