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title: *The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they stil… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: *The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they still carry with them, on their rounds at night, a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times by the above denomination. Who acts: watchmen. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 1

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\*The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they still carry with them, on their rounds at night, a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times by the above denomination.

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**Who acts:** watchmen · **What happens:** have, carry, know, sort · **To what, where:** places, rounds, mace

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchmen), 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:pg1597:7:1
# text = *The watchmen in Germany, had formerly, and in some places they still carry with them, on their rounds at night, a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times by the above denomination.
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rounds	round	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	above	above	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	denomination	denomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the watchmen in Germany |  |  |  |  | formerly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | present | watchmen *= watchman* |  |  | some places | still | with places *= place* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | watchmen's rounds at night and a sort of mace or club *not said here* |  |  | time | by the above denomination | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | mace or club |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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