Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 103

The whole world was to him like a clockmaker's great workshop, in which all the clocks were going "tick, tick," and all the turret clocks striking "ding, dong."

Who acts: whole world, clocks, turret clocks · What happens: be, go, strike · To what, where: tick, great workshop, ding

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole world, clocks, turret clocks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 world	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 world	amod
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 workshop	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 workshop	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 workshop	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clockmaker	det
9	clockmaker	clockmaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 workshop	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 clockmaker	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 workshop	amod
12	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 going	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 clocks	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clocks	det
18	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 going	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 workshop	parataxis
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 tick	punct
22	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tick	punct
24	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tick	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clocks	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 clocks	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 clocks	det
30	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clocks	compound
31	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workshop	conj
32	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 clocks	acl
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 ding	punct
34	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 striking	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dong	punct
36	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ding	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 ding	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 ding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole world			like a clockmaker's great workshop and all turret clocks	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	all clocks	tick and tick	a clockmaker's great workshop and all turret clocks		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	strike	gerund	all turret clocks not said here	ding and dong			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ding=Patient

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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