Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 54

And the pendulum of the old clock went to and fro, and the hands turned round; and as time passed on, everything in the room grew older, but no one seemed to notice it.

Who acts: pendulum, hands, everything, one · What happens: go, fro, turn round, pass on, grow, seem · To what, where: time, pendulum

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pendulum	det
3	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 clock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clock	amod
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pendulum	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fro	cc
11	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hands	det
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 turned	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	obl
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 time	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 passed	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 grew	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 everything	nmod
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
30	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 seemed	cc
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grew	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 notice	mark
37	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 seemed	xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 notice	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the pendulum of the old clock				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	the pendulum of the old clock not said here				tree rules
3	turn round	past	the hands			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	pass on	participle		time not said here			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	grow	past	everything		time	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem	past	no one				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	notice	to-infinitive	no one not said here	pendulum			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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