Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 21
And with that they beat upon their shields, and hammered upon the table with knives and bones, in a most outrageous manner.
Who acts: men · What happens: beat, hammer · To what, where: shields, outrageous manner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beat | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 beat | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 beat | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 shields | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shields | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hammered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hammered | cc |
| 11 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hammered | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 knives | case |
| 16 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hammered | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bones | cc |
| 18 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knives | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 manner | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 manner | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 outrageous | advmod |
| 23 | outrageous | outrageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manner | amod |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hammered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | men = man | men's shields | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shield=Location | ||||
| 2 | hammer | past | men = man not said here | a outrageous manner | upon the table; with knives and bones | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument |
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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