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title: They must fire in another fashion before he awakes; but wake he will… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They must fire in another fashion before he awakes; but wake he will, for there is energy yet in Holger Danske. Who acts: Holger, energy. 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 56

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They must fire in another fashion before he awakes; but wake he will, for there is energy yet in Holger Danske.

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**Who acts:** Holger, energy · **What happens:** awake, wake, be · **To what, where:** Holger

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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, energy), 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:pg27200:50:56
# text = They must fire in another fashion before he awakes; but wake he will, for there is energy yet in Holger Danske.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	awakes	awake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Holger	Holger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	Danske	Danske	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | present | Holger |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | present | energy |  |  | Holger; there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in holger=Location |

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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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