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title: But the roaring cannons did not awake Holger Danske, for they meant… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the roaring cannons did not awake Holger Danske, for they meant only "Good morning," and "Thank you." Who acts: roaring cannons, cannons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 55

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But the roaring cannons did not awake Holger Danske, for they meant only "Good morning," and "Thank you."

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**Who acts:** roaring cannons, cannons · **What happens:** not awake, mean, thank · **To what, where:** Holger, you · **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 (roaring cannons, cannons), 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:pg27200:50:55
# text = But the roaring cannons did not awake Holger Danske, for they meant only "Good morning," and "Thank you."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **awake** | past · do-support | the roaring cannons | Holger |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holger=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | past | cannons *= cannon* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | cannons *= cannon* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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