Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 17

The fools played the fool most admirably, and drank mead out of spirit-glasses, which they then flung among the crowd, by whom they were caught up.

Who acts: fools · What happens: play, drink, fling, catch up · To what, where: fool, mead, spirit glasses, crowd, fools

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 (fools), 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 fools	det
2	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 admirably	advmod
7	admirably	admirably	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	parataxis
11	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	16 glasses	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 glasses	case
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glasses	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 spirit	punct
16	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drank	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flung	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 flung	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flung	nsubj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 flung	advmod
21	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 glasses	conj
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 crowd	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crowd	det
24	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 caught	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 caught	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 caught	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 caught	aux:pass
30	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 drank	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 caught	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the fools	the fool			admirably property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme
2	drink	past		mead	spirit glasses			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient
3	fling	past	fools = fool	spirit glasses	the crowd	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme among crowd=Destination
4	catch up	past · passive		fools = fool				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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