Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 40

The pendulum of the great clock went to and fro, and the hands turned, and everything in the room became still older; but they did not observe it.

Who acts: pendulum, hands, everything · What happens: go, fro, turn, become, not observe · To what, where: pendulum

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pendulum, hands, everything), 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 pendulum	det
2	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 clock	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clock	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clock	amod
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pendulum	nmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fro	cc
10	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 became	cc
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 became	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 everything	nmod
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	conj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 older	advmod
24	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 became	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 observe	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 observe	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 observe	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 observe	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 observe	advmod
30	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 observe	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the pendulum of the great clock			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	the pendulum of the great clock not said here			tree rules
3	turn	past	the hands			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	everything		old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	not observe	past · do-support	hands = hand	pendulum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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