Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 88

A clock, with heavy weights, hung on the wall and went "tick, tick," steadily enough; yet it was always rather too fast, which, however, the old people said was better than being too slow.

Who acts: wall · What happens: hang, go, be, say · To what, where: clock, wall, tick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weights	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 weights	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weights	amod
6	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clock	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct
8	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hung	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 tick	punct
15	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tick	punct
17	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tick	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 steadily	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 steadily	punct
20	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	8 hung	advmod
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	20 steadily	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 better	punct
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	40 better	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fast	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	cop
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 rather	advmod
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 better	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 which	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 which	punct
33	however	however	ADV	_	38 said	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 however	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	parataxis
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 better	cop
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 hung	conj
41	than	than	SCONJ	_	44 slow	mark
42	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 slow	cop
43	too	too	ADV	_	44 slow	advmod
44	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 better	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	participle · passive		a clock and heavy weights	the wall	steadily property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination
2	go	past		tick and tick			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	wall			fast property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past				however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				good property	tree rules
6	is	gerund				slow property	tree rules

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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