Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 6

There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the "bird," as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent on the top, and all manner of dingle-dangles hanging to it--a perfect Turkish clatter of music.

Who acts: full band, big stick, dingle dangles, music · What happens: be, call, hang, clatter · To what, where: splendid bird, grandfather, band · 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 (full band, big stick, dingle dangles, music), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 band	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 band	amod
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 music	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 band	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bird	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bird	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 splendid	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 splendid	advmod
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 instruments	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 instruments	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 instruments	det
16	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 splendid	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bird	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 bird	punct
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bird	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 bird	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 grandfather	case
24	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 grandfather	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stick	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stick	amod
28	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 crescent	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crescent	det
31	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stick	nmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 top	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 top	det
34	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crescent	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 manner	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 manner	cc
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 manner	det
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 dangles	case
40	dingle	dingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dangles	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 dingle	punct
42	dangles	dangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 manner	nmod
43	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 dangles	acl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hanging	obl
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 clatter	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 clatter	det
48	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 clatter	amod
49	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 clatter	amod
50	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 manner	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 music	case
52	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 clatter	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a full band of music			there	as grandfather	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past		the splendid bird				tree rules
3	call	participle	the big stick	grandfather not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient
4	hang	gerund	dingle dangles not said here		band			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	clatter		music					nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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