Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 10

“What is that?” said she, and looked on all sides; but the old man was gone, and her little child was gone--he had taken it with him; and the old clock in the corner burred, and burred, the great leaden weight ran down to the floor, bump! and then the clock also stood still.

Who acts: that, old man, little child, man, great leaden weight, clock · What happens: be, say, look, take, bur, run down · To what, where: child, old clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old man, little child, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	nsubj:outer
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
11	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sides	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sides	det
14	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looked	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gone	cc
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 child	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 child	amod
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gone	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	cop
28	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gone	conj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 taken	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taken	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taken	aux
32	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 gone	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taken	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 taken	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 burred	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 burred	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 clock	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 clock	amod
40	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 burred	nsubj:pass
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 corner	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 corner	det
43	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 clock	nmod
44	burred	bur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 burred	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 burred	cc
47	burred	bur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 burred	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 ran	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 weight	det
50	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 weight	amod
51	leaden	leaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 weight	amod
52	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ran	nsubj
53	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 burred	parataxis
54	down	down	ADV	_	53 ran	advmod
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 floor	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 floor	det
57	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ran	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 bump	punct
59	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 floor	conj
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 burred	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 stood	cc
62	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	66 stood	advmod
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 clock	det
64	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 stood	nsubj
65	also	also	ADV	_	66 stood	advmod
66	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 burred	conj
67	still	still	ADV	_	66 stood	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that				tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	participle				on all sides	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
4	is	past	the old man			gone property	tree rules
5	is	past	head's little child			gone property	tree rules
6	take	past · perfect	man	child		with Death	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	bur	participle · passive		the old clock in the corner			tree rules
8	bur	participle					tree rules
9	run down	past	the great leaden weight			to the floor and bump result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to floor=Result
10	stand	past	the clock		then; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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