--- title: He beat the people with his bat, which made a great clattering witho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Storm Shakes the Shield](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/) / 9 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:184:9 # text = 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. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 clattering clattering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 crowd crowd VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 advance advance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/10/) - ↑ back to [The Storm Shakes the Shield](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/)