Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 43

The throng in front of the church knew where they could hit the King, and one of them flung a stone through a pane of glass, and the King lay there dead!

Who acts: throng, brothers, one, King · What happens: know, hit, fling, lie · To what, where: King, stone, pane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throng, brothers, one, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 throng	det
2	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throng	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 hit	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hit	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	aux
12	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knew	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flung	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 flung	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nmod
20	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 pane	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pane	det
25	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pane	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	parataxis
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lay	advmod
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lay	xcomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the throng in front of the church				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hit	could	brothers = brother	the King			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Co-Theme
3	fling	past	one of brothers	a stone	a pane of glass		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme through pane=Destination
4	lie	past	the King		there	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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