Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 11

One laughed, another chatted; the people thronged the windows and door-steps, and even all the roofs.

Who acts: One, people · What happens: laugh, chat, throng · To what, where: another, windows

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, people), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chatted	punct
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 chatted	nsubj:pass
5	chatted	chat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 laughed	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 thronged	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thronged	nsubj
9	thronged	throng	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thronged	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 steps	cc
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 steps	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 door	punct
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 windows	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 roofs	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roofs	cc
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 roofs	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 roofs	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roofs	det
21	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thronged	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	One			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat speech: other	participle · passive		another		tree rules
3	throng	past	the people	the windows and door steps	all roofs obl	tree rules

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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