Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 6

At the top sat a cuckoo, below hung the heavy leaden weights, and the pendulum with the polished disc of metal went to and fro, and said 'tick, tick.'

Who acts: pendulum · What happens: sit, hang, polish, go, fro, say · To what, where: cuckoo, top, heavy leaden weights, tick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pendulum), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cuckoo	det
6	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hung	punct
8	below	below	ADV	_	9 hung	advmod
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weights	det
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weights	amod
12	leaden	leaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weights	amod
13	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hung	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pendulum	det
17	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 disc	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 disc	det
20	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 disc	amod
21	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pendulum	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 metal	case
23	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disc	nmod
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fro	cc
27	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 went	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 tick	punct
32	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tick	punct
34	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tick	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 tick	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 tick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a cuckoo	the top		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent cuckoo=Theme at top=Location
2	hang	past		the heavy leaden weights		below property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
3	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the pendulum with the polished disc of metal				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fro	infinitive	the pendulum with the polished disc of metal not said here				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past		tick and tick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tick=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: «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.

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