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title: And now he had carved Holger Danske, who stood there erect and proud… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And now he had carved Holger Danske, who stood there erect and proud, with his long beard, holding in one hand his broad battle-axe, while with the other he leaned on the Danish arms. Who acts: Holger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 12

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And now he had carved Holger Danske, who stood there erect and proud, with his long beard, holding in one hand his broad battle-axe, while with the other he leaned on the Danish arms.

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**Who acts:** Holger · **What happens:** carve, stand, hold, learn · **To what, where:** Holger, broad battle axe, one hand, Danish arms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holger), 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:pg27200:50:12
# text = And now he had carved Holger Danske, who stood there erect and proud, with his long beard, holding in one hand his broad battle-axe, while with the other he leaned on the Danish arms.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past · perfect | Holger | Holger |  |  | now |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holger=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Holger |  |  | there |  | with Holger's long beard; erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | Holger *not said here* | Holger's broad battle axe |  | one hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **learn** | past | Holger |  |  | the Danish arms |  | with the other | vn learn-14-1 «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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