Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 15

The oldest of the policemen used to make a speech from the platform on which the shield was hung up, and the speech was in verse, as if it had been made by a poet, as, indeed it had; for three people had concocted it together, and they had first drunk a good bowl of punch, so that the speech might turn out well.

Who acts: oldest, speech, poet · What happens: use, make, hang up, be, have, concoct · To what, where: speech, platform, shield, verse, people

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 (oldest, speech, poet), 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 oldest	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 used	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 policemen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 policemen	det
5	policemen	policeman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oldest	obl
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 speech	det
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 platform	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 platform	det
13	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hung	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shield	det
17	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hung	aux:pass
19	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 platform	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 hung	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 verse	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 verse	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 speech	det
24	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 verse	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 verse	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 verse	case
27	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 made	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 made	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 made	aux:pass
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 poet	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 poet	det
37	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 had	mark
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	43 had	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	advcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 concocted	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 people	case
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 people	nummod
47	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 concocted	obl
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 concocted	aux
49	concocted	concoct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 used	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 concocted	obj
51	together	together	ADV	_	49 concocted	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 drunk	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 drunk	cc
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 drunk	nsubj:pass
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 drunk	aux
56	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	57 drunk	advmod
57	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 concocted	parataxis
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 bowl	det
59	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 bowl	amod
60	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 drunk	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 punch	case
62	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 bowl	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 turn	punct
64	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	69 turn	mark
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 so	fixed
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 speech	det
67	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 turn	nsubj
68	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 turn	aux
69	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 drunk	conj
70	out	out	ADP	_	69 turn	compound:prt
71	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	69 turn	advmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	the oldest				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	the oldest not said here	a speech	the platform		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset speech=Product from platform=Material
3	hang up	past · passive		the shield	the platform		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
4	is	past	the speech		verse		tree rules
5	make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	a poet	speech			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
6	have	past	speech			indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	concoct	past · perfect	the oldest not said here	speech		for three people; together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for people=Beneficiary
8	drink	past · perfect · passive		people		first property	tree rules
9	turn out	might	the speech			well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/15/