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title: Each marksman wore the number of hits he had made twisted in a garla… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Each marksman wore the number of hits he had made twisted in a garland round his hat. Who acts: marksman, canton, hits. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 121

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Each marksman wore the number of hits he had made twisted in a garland round his hat.

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**Who acts:** marksman, canton, hits · **What happens:** wear, make, twist · **To what, where:** number, hits, garland

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marksman, canton, hits), 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:pg27200:55:121
# text = Each marksman wore the number of hits he had made twisted in a garland round his hat.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	marksman	marksman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hits	hit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | each marksman | the number of hits |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent number=Source |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | canton | hits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **twist** | participle | hits *not said here* |  |  | a garland round canton's hat |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in garland=Trajectory |

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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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