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title: Each of them wished to visit one of the four divisions of the world,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of them wished to visit one of the four divisions of the world, so that it might be seen which was the most favored by fortune. Who acts: Each, fortune. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 22

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Each of them wished to visit one of the four divisions of the world, so that it might be seen which was the most favored by fortune.

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**Who acts:** Each, fortune · **What happens:** wish, visit, see, favor · **To what, where:** one, world

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, fortune), 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:pg27200:178:22
# text = Each of them wished to visit one of the four divisions of the world, so that it might be seen which was the most favored by fortune.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	divisions	division	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	favored	favor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **wish** | past | Each |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Each *not said here* | one of the four divisions of the world |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **see** | might · passive |  | world |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **favor** | past · passive | fortune |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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