Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 73

The clock said “tick! tack!” and the finger moved round; but as they entered, they remarked that they were now grown up.

Who acts: clock, finger, tick · What happens: say, move, enter, remark, grow up · To what, where: tick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, finger, tick), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
5	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
7	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tick	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tick	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 moved	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 finger	det
12	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moved	nsubj
13	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 moved	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 remarked	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 remarked	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 entered	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 entered	nsubj
19	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 remarked	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 entered	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remarked	nsubj
22	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 grown	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grown	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grown	aux:pass
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 grown	advmod
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 remarked	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 grown	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the clock	tick and tack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tick=Topic
2	move	past	the finger			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	past	tick				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remark speech: assert	past	tick				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow up	past · passive		tick	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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