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title: All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch da… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 7

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All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called.

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**What happens:** order, be, hold, call · **To what, where:** wisps, torch dance, hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:31:7
# text = All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wisps	wisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | future · passive |  | the wisps |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  | a torch dance |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | hill |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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