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title: I have often thought it might have been Holger Danske himself, who h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have often thought it might have been Holger Danske himself, who had swam down to us from Kronenburg to help us in the hour of danger. Who acts: I, face, Holger. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 41

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I have often thought it might have been Holger Danske himself, who had swam down to us from Kronenburg to help us in the hour of danger.

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**Who acts:** I, face, Holger · **What happens:** think, be, swim down, help · **To what, where:** Holger, us, Kronenburg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, face, 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:pg27200:50:41
# text = I have often thought it might have been Holger Danske himself, who had swam down to us from Kronenburg to help us in the hour of danger.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	swam	swim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kronenburg	Kronenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | might · perfect | face | Holger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim down** | past · perfect | Holger |  | us | Kronenburg |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to we=Destination |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Holger *not said here* |  | us |  | hour |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |

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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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