More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 124
Tick, tick, went the clock, but he did not hear it now.
Who acts: Tick, farmer · What happens: go, not hear · To what, where: clock
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tick, farmer), 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 | Tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tick | punct |
| 3 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tick | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tick | punct |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clock | det |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hear | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hear | advmod |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | obj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hear | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tick and tick | the clock | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not hear | past · do-support | farmer | clock | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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