Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 27

A person could walk up and down for a whole day through the streets, and tire himself out with looking at the pictures; and then he would know all about what people lived in the houses, for they had hung out their shields or signs; and, as grandfather said, it was a very instructive thing, in a great town, to know at once who the inhabitants were.

Who acts: person, people, grandfather, shield · What happens: walk, tire out, look, know, live, hang out · To what, where: streets, person, houses, people, instructive thing · 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 (person, people, grandfather, shield), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 down	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 up	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 streets	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 streets	det
14	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tire	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tire	cc
17	tire	tire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 tire	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 tire	compound:prt
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 looking	mark
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tire	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 pictures	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pictures	det
24	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looking	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 know	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	parataxis
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 what	advmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 what	case
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 know	obj
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 houses	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 houses	det
38	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lived	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hung	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 hung	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hung	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hung	aux
43	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 lived	advcl
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 hung	compound:prt
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 shields	nmod:poss
46	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hung	obj
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 signs	cc
48	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shields	conj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 thing	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 thing	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 and	punct
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 said	mark
53	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 said	nsubj
54	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 thing	advcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 said	punct
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 thing	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 thing	cop
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 thing	det
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 instructive	advmod
60	instructive	instructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 thing	amod
61	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	parataxis
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 town	punct
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 town	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 town	det
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 town	amod
66	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 thing	parataxis
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 know	punct
68	to	to	PART	_	69 know	mark
69	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 town	parataxis
70	at	at	ADP	_	71 once	case
71	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	69 know	obl
72	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 were	nsubj
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 inhabitants	det
74	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 were	nsubj
75	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 know	ccomp
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	could	a person		the streets	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
2	tire out	infinitive	a person not said here	person				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	look	gerund	a person not said here				at the pictures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme
4	know	would	person			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	live	past	people		the houses			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	hang out	past · perfect · passive		people				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient shield=Result
7	say speech: assert	past	grandfather					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	shield	a instructive thing				tree rules
9	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	be	past						vn exist-47.1 «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.

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