Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 57

The old clock was going "tick, tick," and the hands pointed to the time of day, but as they passed through the door into the room they perceived that they were both grown up, and become a man and woman.

Who acts: old clock, hands · What happens: go, point, pass, perceive, grow up, become · To what, where: tick, hands, door, room, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old clock, hands), 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 clock	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clock	amod
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
7	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tick	punct
9	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tick	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tick	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hands	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tick	conj
15	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hands	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 become	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 become	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 passed	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 passed	nsubj
25	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 become	advcl
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 perceived	nsubj
33	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 room	acl:relcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 grown	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 grown	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grown	aux:pass
37	both	both	ADV	_	38 grown	advmod
38	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 perceived	ccomp
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 grown	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 become	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 become	cc
42	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 going	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 become	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 woman	cc
46	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 man	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the old clock	tick and tick and the hands				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tick=Theme
2	point	participle		the hands not said here		time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	hands = hand		the door		into the room	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location into room=Destination
4	perceive	past	hands = hand	the room not said here				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent room=Theme clause=Attribute
5	grow up	past · passive		hands = hand			both property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	become	infinitive		a man and woman				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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