Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 121
Each marksman wore the number of hits he had made twisted in a garland round his hat.
Who acts: marksman, canton, hits · What happens: wear, make, twist · To what, where: number, hits, garland
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 marksman | det |
| 2 | marksman | marksman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hits | case |
| 7 | hits | hit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 hits | acl:relcl |
| 11 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 garland | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garland | det |
| 14 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twisted | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 hat | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garland | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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