Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 7

But no, he was not looking at the clock, but at his mother's spinning wheel, that stood just underneath it.

Who acts: pendulum, that · What happens: not look, stand · To what, where: clock

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, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 looking	cc
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 looking	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looking	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 looking	advmod
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 clock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clock	det
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wheel	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wheel	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	18 wheel	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wheel	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 mother	case
17	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wheel	compound
18	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wheel	parataxis
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 underneath	advmod
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past · progressive	pendulum					at pendulum's mother's spinning wheel; at the clock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme
2	stand	past	that	clock				underneath property	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: «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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