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title: They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a spl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 2

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They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** shoulder, look, wear · **To what, where:** arms, splendid uniform

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg27200:192:2
# text = They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoulder** | past | brothers *= brother* | arms |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  | before brothers *= brother* |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before they=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | past |  | a splendid uniform |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=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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