Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 51

The poor people in the town, and still more the strangers, were continually making mistakes in the people they wanted to see; nor was this to be avoided, when they went according to the shields that were hung up.

Who acts: more, strangers, people · What happens: make, want, see, be, avoid, go · To what, where: mistakes, people, this, poor people, shields

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 (more, strangers, people), 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	3 people	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 avoided	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 making	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 strangers	det
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 more	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 more	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 making	aux
15	continually	continually	ADV	_	16 making	advmod
16	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 people	acl
17	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 making	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 making	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 people	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 avoided	punct
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 this	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 this	cop
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 avoided	nsubj:pass
29	to	to	PART	_	31 avoided	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 avoided	aux:pass
31	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 went	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 avoided	parataxis
36	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 shields	case
37	to	to	ADP	_	36 according	fixed
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shields	det
39	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 went	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 hung	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hung	aux:pass
42	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 shields	acl:relcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 hung	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	more	mistakes	in the people; continually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product
2	want	past	strangers = stranger	the people not said here		tree rules
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the people not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		this		tree rules
5	avoid	to-infinitive · passive		the poor people in the town		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location
6	go	past	strangers = stranger		accord the shields	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	hang up	past · passive		the shields		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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