Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 24
There were so many people in the streets, that he thought that the shield was being carried.
Who acts: many people, Nor · What happens: be, think, carry · To what, where: shield · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many people, Nor), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 carried | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shield | det |
| 15 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many people in the streets | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Nor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | the shield | vn carry-11.4 «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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