Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 16

And the people gave a cheer for the speech, but they shouted much louder for the Harlequin, when he appeared in front of the platform, and made a grimace at them.

Who acts: people, oldest · What happens: give, shout, appear, make · To what, where: cheer, front, grimace

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 (people, oldest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheer	det
6	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 speech	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speech	det
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheer	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shouted	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 shouted	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shouted	nsubj
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 louder	advmod
15	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 shouted	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 Harlequin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Harlequin	det
18	Harlequin	Harlequin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 louder	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 appeared	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shouted	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 front	case
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 platform	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 platform	det
27	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 front	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 grimace	det
32	grimace	grimace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the people	a cheer		for the speech	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cheer=Theme for speech=Asset
2	shout speech: express	past	people				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appear	past	oldest = old		front of the platform		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	make	past	the people not said here	a grimace		at people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grimace=Product

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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