Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 9

He beat the people with his bat, which made a great clattering without hurting them, and the people would crowd together and fall back, only to advance again the next moment.

Who acts: stick, bat, people · What happens: beat, make, hurt, crowd together, fall back, advance · To what, where: people, great clattering

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 (stick, bat, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bat	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bat	nmod:poss
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bat	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 clattering	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clattering	amod
13	clattering	clattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 hurting	mark
15	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 made	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurting	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crowd	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crowd	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crowd	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 crowd	aux
22	crowd	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beat	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 crowd	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 crowd	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 fall	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 advance	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 advance	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 advance	mark
30	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 crowd	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 advance	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 moment	amod
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 advance	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	stick	the people		with stick's bat	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with bat=Instrument
2	make	past	stick's bat	a great clattering			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clattering=Product
3	hurt	gerund	stick's bat not said here	people			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
4	crowd together	would	the people			together property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	fall back	infinitive	the people not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	advance	to-infinitive	the people not said here		again; moment		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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